Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jaded, world-traveled Correspondent Walter Duranty of the New York Times who thus described last week with sly enthusiasm the notorious Madame Borodin, wife of the Soviet Russian emissary to Chinese Communists, Michael Borodin. When Mme. Borodin was captured by Chinese anti-Communist troops near Shanghai (TIME, March 21), many a non-Communist thought, "Serves her right!" What sort of treatment has Mme. Borodin received? She told last week in the bare, white-walled waiting-room of a prison at Peking...
Then, chattily going back to the very beginning, she seemed to become again the commonplace "Mrs. Grosberg," under which name she was known in Chicago, years ago. "Well," she said, "things are so dear in Moscow that when I got to Shanghai and found them so cheap I just bought all sorts of things...
...extended northward last week by the advance of their several armies toward Peking. The reaction of U. S. President Coolidge to this situation was to inform reporters that the removal of the U. S. Legation from Peking down to the seacoast at Tientsin, or even 650 miles southward to Shanghai, was contemplated. The reaction of John Van Antwerp MacMurray, alert, pugnacious U. S. Minister at Peking, was to keep the cables busy with code messages which legation officials privately said were appeals for instructions to stand pat at Peking. . . . This meant that Minister MacMurray was looking out for troops...
...told of my father's death until after we had been transferred to a freighter bound for Shanghai. Of course, if I had known, I would have rushed...
That the Chinese band carrying strings of firecrackers on bamboo poles, which met them at Shanghai, and the flower girls who escorted the Queen of Spain to her lesson in U. S. student jazz, were characteristic minutiae of the color and folkways observed by students of history, sociology and kindred subjects, at first hand instead of in books...