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...Kennedy's extensively superfluous comments on his winnings which constituted yapping might be quoted for pages. Short samples: "Love covers everything. . . . I shan't become one of the idle rich. . . . I'll have to go somewhere to get away. . . . I believe I won because of my faith in God. . . . Shucks, $145.000 isn't a fortune. . . . Money isn't everything. . . ." The Boston Daily Globe described him as "completely bewildered": the N. Y. Herald Tribune as "a trembling Negro . . . tears streaming down his cheeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1931 | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...meet Dastard Chang in Dairen came representatives of China's two highest-minded, purest-hearted itinerant warriors: the "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, and Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, former "Model Governor" of Shansi Province (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dastard & Venerable Mother | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...past twelvemonth potent, progressive President Chiang has brought peace to most of China by driving two rival War Lords out of China, bringing a third into his regime. Nos. 1 & 2 are ex-Governor Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi ("The Model Province") and ex-Generalissimo Feng Yu-hsiang of "The Largest Private Army in the World" (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Spring Comes to Chiang Kai-shek | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...great & virtuous Yen Hsi-shan, long "model Governor" of Shansi Province, now defeated, selfexiled. Some of the "attendants" said that Marshal Yen yearns to tour first Japan, next the U. S., will shortly do so. Others said he will settle down at Beppu, Japan's Karlsbad, lately the refuge of that other Chinese exile, notorious Marshal Chang Tsung-chang, so brazen that he calls his attendants "concubines" and worse (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Yen, Zero, Chang, Reds | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...approaches more nearly the Shan dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of the Year, 1930 | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

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