Word: shansi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...
...taking his ease in Japanese Dairen; Feng is skulking in Honan with only 50,000 troops. Thus the 300,000 farmer soldiers of Yen and Feng constitute a stiff "disbandment problem." Last week this problem was being tackled in Shansi by able Dr. H. H. Kung, Disbandment Commissioner Extraordinary, unique in prestige as he is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius...
...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...
Buying eggs and potatoes en route (Minister Johnson leading a sad-eyed pack pony) they went along the borders of Shansi province, whither a round-faced young engineer named Herbert Hoover took his bride while he surveyed mineral deposits...