Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶Flying mail between Nanking and Ber lin, a plane and two pilots of Eurasia Corp. were forced down in a storm last fortnight. Another of the company's planes flew out to search, sighted the missing craft in the Mongolian desert. But when the rescuers glided low for a...
The Chinese Officers' Moral Endeavor Association ("organized to build charac-ter") issued at Nanking recently Ten Commandments. Not legally binding, they are nevertheless officially sanctioned and strongly recommended to Chinese officers of all ranks by slim, shrill, wasp-waisted little President Chiang Kaishek, now busy fighting bandits (TIME, June 29...
Rich expatriate Chinese have contributed millions of dollars to the cause of President Chiang Kaishek. Astute, he has just built at Nanking a $240,000 ''Guest House" in which visiting Chinese donors and prospective donors will be sumptuously entertained. In style it is an Imperial Palace of Old...
Born in Trinidad, smart Mr. Chen went originally to London where he became a prosperous solicitor. In 1926 Chen and Chiang, who now scorns him, were fellow revolutionaries in Canton. Both took Russian gold then, but Marshal Chiang, having conquered half of China (1927), broke with Moscow whereas Chen did...
Newsstories that he had died of typhoid fever made Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, Vice-Commander of the Nanking Government's Army & Navy, sit up and take notice in the Rockefeller Hospital at Peiping last week. Among other things typhoid-convalescent Chang noticed that the first motor truck ever built...