Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...example a $1,800,000 contract was let, last week, to the enterprising Automatic Electric Company of Chicago, which, within the next twelvemonth, will install a U. S. dial-telephone system in the Capital of the Nationalist State, the ancient Chinese city of Nanking, founded even before...
...desire to emphasize the necessity of economy, both for our new Nationalist Government (TIME, Oct. 29) and in our private lives. I hope that all members of this government will practice strict economy and avoid bad habits. Don't degenerate! Even our highest officials should do their own marketing, and their wives should do the family cooking...
Naturally War Minister Feng could not resist the temptation to preach his favorite principles, last week, to the new Nationalist Government and to President and Mrs. Chiang Kaishek. Whether the President will hereafter go marketing every day in his armoured Packard car remained to be seen. But the whole Government paid strictest attention as Marshal Feng developed the thesis of Spartan endeavor against a common enemy-JAPAN...
Observers friendly to Marshal Feng noticed that he, with the potent inconsistency of greatness, has now turned his broad back upon the Russian Soviet Government which, two years ago, was furnishing him with most of his money, ammunition and supplies. It is an historic paradox that the Nationalist Party, which conquered China with Russian propaganda and Russian gold, is now absolutely estranged from Moscow and on the friendliest terms with U. S. business...
...family, the great House of Soong, is more potent. Mrs. Chiang's brother is Finance Minister T. V. Soong; one of her brothers-in-law is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius, H. H. Kung; a second was the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, sainted father of the Nationalist Party which now dominates all China. Since Mrs. Hoover's father was a prosperous American banker and Mrs. Chiang's a vastly rich Chinamerchant, neither has ever been in meager circumstances...