Word: senning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hankow, "The Chicago of China," to which much of the Government moved before the fall of Nanking, was busy last week with the work of sending more & more Government paraphernalia on upriver to Chungking, where figurehead Chinese President Lin Sen established himself directly after he left Nanking. Japanese planes bombed several Yangtze River cities between Nanking and Hankow last week, dropped leaflets in Wuchang across the river from Hankow reading: "Chinese! Your Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is a beaten wolf. He is at the end of his rope...
...Bibles to Chinese as fast as the missionaries created a demand. Investing his profits at about 40% Chinese interest, he died a merchant prince. Old Mrs. Soong had not forgotten that her late husband had tumbled another of her daughters unceremoniously into the arms of old Dr. Sun Yat-sen (who also had another wife at the time) and that the marriage had been a master stroke for the House of Soong...
That elderly and respected stooge, Mr. Lin Sen, the Chinese President, went aboard a warship which took him 1,000 miles up the Yangtze to Chungking. Foreign Minister Wang Chung-hui and Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung announced they were going to Hankow, with the War Ministry slated to establish itself just across the river at Wuchang. Obviously the main purpose of such announcements last week was to impress the world with a notion that whatever cities Japanese troops succeed in taking there will always be other cities containing part of the "Chinese Government." Generalissimo Chiang, although still Premier...
...sculptural medium, was Beniamino Bufano, tough, visionary little Italian whose greatest ambition is to build San Francisco a 180-ft. statue of St. Francis of Assisi (TIME, Feb. 15). Many an old Chinese who suns himself daily in St. Mary's Square can remember Sun Yat-sen during his residence in San Francisco about 30 years ago; Sculptor Bufano can remember living in his Canton household for several months...
...pattering loudly into tin pans. It was impossible to talk in comfort until deft Japanese orderlies had placed towels in the bottoms of the tin pans to deaden the noise. Then long-eared General Matsui fell to reminiscing about what a help he was to Dr. Sun Yat-sen and in general how Japan has helped eminent Chinese-indeed Chinese Premier and Generalissimo Chiang received his military education as a cadet in Tokyo...