Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brilliant young Chinese banker of barely 38 swiveled round from his desk in Shanghai last week, peered keenly through tortoise rimmed glasses at a respectful group of correspondents, read in flawless English a crisp, resolute announcement. He was sick and tired, he said, of raising the scores of millions of dollars which Nationalist China has been squandering annually on bootless wars. He, T. V. Soong, scion of the great "Soong Dynasty" of Shanghai bankers, would no more be a party to China's orgy of military waste. In fine, he announced his resignation as Finance Minister of the Nationalist...
Damn! The other night Newspaperman James Hoeck, until recently of Shanghai, Canton, Peking; Richard Kerley, until recently of Memphis, and F. von Falkenberg, until recently of Palm Beach, Pensacola, Tallahassee-all sitting in the back room of a heimgemacht establishment joyfully guzzling brew, discussing Einstein, Nietzsche, Women, Words, TIME...
...wilderness Kermit Roosevelt arrived at Shanghai and announced?lest there be some doubt about it?that his brother would surely accept...
...March, 1929, McKesson & Robbins, Inc., announced the acquisition of 18 additional companies. Last week J. S. Merrell Drug Co. was sold to McKesson & Robbins, began to operate as a McKesson & Robbins subsidiary. In addition to its U. S. companies, McKesson & Robbins has branches in London, Paris, Montreal, Kobe, Shanghai, Hankow, and many a South American city. The 1928 net earnings of the 16 original companies...
...attending no heart-affecting sport events. Occasionally he went to Manhattan, stared up Broadway from a suite in the Hotel McAlpin. He adopted two Chinese boys, one of whom became his personal ringside and diamondside reporter. Many a drawing made in Great Neck he signed: "Tad, Moscow" or "Tad, Shanghai." His home stood between those of two of his numberless friends, Fisticuffer James J. Corbett, retired, and Funnyman Ring W. Lardner...