Word: shang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Raymor Ballroom and the latter at the Atlantic Beach in Revere are both good bands worth spending an evening listening to. Since he disbanded his Duke University band, Brown has gone in for a sort of pleasantly arranged sweet-swing that's quite good. For example, his theme, "Shang-ri-La," is something worth hearing...
...against the Japanese. The political capital of Chiang's Government is now far-off Chungking but for Westerners its financial capital is in the foreign enclaves, particularly Hong Kong and Shanghai. The Japanese are bitterly aware of this. They have not yet dared seize the international settlement of Shang hai and other foreign areas of cities but they have tried gradual encroachment, and last week they tried something stronger, blockading the French and British concessions in Tientsin, thereby striking a blow where the U. S. has no direct territorial rights...
...spontaneous Chinese movement for autonomy" was set up fortnight ago when 25 counties were proclaimed an Autonomous Government by one Mr. Yin Ju-keng, a Chinese with a prominent Japanese brother-in-law. Orders to arrest Mr. Yin were telegraphed by Generalissimo Chiang last week to General Shang Chen, Governor of Hopei Province. Unable to arrest Mr. Yin, General Shang announced that he blamed himself entirely for everything and in deepest shame would resign "because of illness contracted from stove- gas in my residence." Not to be put off with stove-gas, Generalissimo Chiang meanwhile wired from Nanking asking goat...
...keng, commissioner of the demilitarized zone in North China, who obligingly sent out a general telegram demanding autonomy for North China. Doubtful Japanese catches were Chahar's Governor Hsiao Chen-yung and Suiyuan's Governor Fu Tso-yi. The Chinese Government meanwhile appeared to land Shang Chen, Governor of Hopei. It went on angling hopefully for Yen Hsi-shan, Shansi's "Model Governor," and Han Fu-chu: Shantung's greedy Governor...
Since the "magistrates" of rural China are its rulers, General Shang, as the representative of Nanking, had agreed, in effect, to put a fat part in North China under men who are as much the puppets of Japan as is the so-called Emperor of so-called Manchukuo. Within 48 hours "The Deal" was followed by the shooting of Premier Wang...