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...Techniques of Scranton. Forty-eight-year-old Chen, like 60-year-old Chiang, was born in Chekiang province. Of eight brothers, only he and Chen Kuo-fu (eight years older and now the serene, tuberculous director of the powerful Farmers' Bank of China) are still alive. Chen's childhood was poor and insecure. But among Chen's kin was an uncle, doughty Chen Chi-mei, revolutionary general and patron of young Chiang Kaishek. On his deathbed, Uncle Chen summoned Chiang...
...studied for a year at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Mines. After his M.S. thesis, Application of Mechanical and Electrical Devices to Coal Mining in China, Chen took an even more advanced course. He signed up as a coal miner in Pittsburgh and Scranton collieries,* held a card in John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers...
Back in China in 1926, Chen had some idea of benefiting mankind by applying Scranton techniques to the coal fields of Shantung. Fate-and hsiao-had more exciting work for him. He again met Chiang Kaishek, now the general of Kuomintang armies driving against the warlords, and Chiang made Chen a political aide...
Died. Charles Sumner Woolworth, 90, who helped brother Frank found the fabulous red-front chain of 5-&-10? stores, onetime chairman of the board of the F. W. Woolworth Co. (1919-44); in Scranton...
JOHN F. MULLANEY EDWARD B. FINNEGAN Scranton...