Word: shek
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Temperamental little President Chiang Kai-shek of Nationalist China, whose waist is as slim and mind as changeable as a woman's, changed his mind every other day last week, about the civil war he is waging with the so-called "People's Army" (TIME, Nov.11...
...long awaited proclamation the Nanking Nationalist Government clarioned last week: "The nation's hopes accompany President Chiang Kai-Shek as he goes northward to do battle...
Slim, wasp-waisted, high-strung President Chiang Kai-shek of China seemed to crack suddenly under the strain of the Sino-Russian crisis one day last week. At a meeting of the Cabinet at Nanking he wrung his small bony hands and wailed out despairingly one of the most remarkable speeches ever made by a Chief Executive on the eve of war. "Tell me the reason," began Chiang excitedly, "tell me why Soviet Russia can oppress our people...
...President Chiang Kai-shek ordered a $1,000,000 "credit for war supplies" placed at the disposal of his field commander in Manchuria, Marshal Chang Hsueh-lian...
...Woodrow Wilson, in Shanghai, was lunched by President Chiang Kai-shek, dined by Foreign Minister Cheng T'ing Wang...