Word: soong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When President Chiang Kai-shek can snatch time to go home from China's everlasting wars, he goes to the world's daintiest First Lady, to girlish Mei-ling (née Soong*). who went to Wellesley, bangs her hair like a Victorian debutante, adores jade and jewels, is Methodistly devout. Last week First Lady Mei-ling again complied with a request she seldom refuses -the urgent request of a visiting Wellesley alumna for audience. Audience with China's First Lady is always at tea. Tea was served last week in the First Lady's small...
...that, Finance Minister T. V. Soong† thought he was getting a bargain. Though the Panchen Lama speaks only Tibetan, knows less Chinese than most U. S. missionaries, he is the only person in China allowed to use imperial yellow since the downfall of the monarchy. When he arrived in Peiping recently to sign his contract, he was received with royal honors by President Chiang and his northern ally Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, waited on hand & foot by Mongol princes who ordinarily have no traffic with Chinese republicans or any of their fiestas...
...Anglicized Shanghai rendering of Sung Tsu-wen, preferred by Minister Soong...
...National Flood Relief Commission under able Minister of Finance T. V. Soong, worked busily. The Nationalist Government, already harassed by rebellion in the south, disaffection in the far west and money troubles of its own, arranged to float a $15,000,000 bond issue, provided $600,000 in ready cash. From the U. S. Red Cross came $100,000. The League of Nations Public Health Service cabled an offer of epidemiologists and supplies from stations in India, Indo-China, the Dutch East Indies and Japan. Emperor Hirohito of Japan sent $27,000. The Asiatic fleet of the U. S. Navy...
...Nationalist Government moved promptly for relief. A committee was organized at Shanghai with the ablest man in Chiang Kai-shek's Cabinet at its head, Finance Minister T. V. Soong, Harvard man, scion of the great "Soong Dynasty" of Shanghai bankers, and President Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law. Minister Soong adjusted his glasses, went to work...