Word: overpopularized
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...years Gauss served in China. Hard-boiled and short-spoken, he was not overpopular with U.S. citizens in Shanghai, where he was consul general-but he got things done. Working with Admiral Yarnell when the Japanese poured into Shanghai, he was known as a man who would not backtrack before the Japanese. When he emerged from his conferences over the administration of the International Settlement, attaches would pass word around that the consul general had won his point: "Gauss is boss...
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