Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese bankers, partly backed by the British Treasury, up a $50,000,000 exchange stabilization fund, pegged the Chinese dollar at 17? A surprisingly stable currency the dollar retained its value despite Japanese currency raids, Chinese military de^at" apanese political pressure on Great Britain. But last week in Shanghai political and economic pressure worked together for the first time. To check a flood of Japanese-sponsored Hua Hsing Bank notes known as "H. H. dollars," in Shanghai, the stabilization commission stopped supporting the dollar, let it "find a level more in keeping with its natural power of resistance...
...SHANGHAI '37-Vicki Baum-Doubleday, Doran...
Author Vicki Baum this week moved her Grand Hotel from Europe to the Orient. Her scene: a Shanghai hotel, in the summer of 1937. Her cast of ten carefully disparate characters: a Chinese banker, his Occidentalized son, a refugee Jewish surgeon who had won the Iron Cross, a svelte White Russian married to a drunken English millionaire, a bespectacled little Japanese journalist, a trained nurse from Iowa and her self-pitying fiance from Hawaii, a tuberculous coolie, a young German musician turned opium addict...
Soon after their marriage Count Ciano & wife were packed off to China, where he was first Consul General at Shanghai, then Minister to China. Recalled to Italy in 1933, he became Under Secretary of State, then Minister for Press & Propaganda, and it began to appear that Edda, the apple of Il Duce's eye, could get for Husband Galeazzo just about any job she wished...
High-spirited, witty, gay, Edda Ciano has little respect for the conventions. In Shanghai she picked up much U. S. slang from Navy officers' wives and subsequently shocked many a diplomatic dowager with her indiscriminate use of "boloney." Once she surprised Sir Eric Drummond (now Lord Perth) by saying "Oakie doak, Sir Eric!" Her first-born child, Fabrizio, she nicknamed the "Little Chink." She caused an uproar at a full-dress diplomatic dinner in Peking by showing up in a tailored suit while her husband wore a dinner coat...