Word: soong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nanking loud Mrs. Chang Hsueh-liang was hospitably entertained by two of the famed "Soong Sisters," arbiters of Chinese society: Mrs. Chiang Kaishek, softspoken, Wellesley-educated wife of the president, and Mrs. H. H. Kung whose husband is the excessively aristocratic 75th descendant of Confucius...
Said the "Morgan of China," Banker T. V. Soong, who is also Finance Minister, last week in Tientsin...
Engaged. A son of "China's Invisible Ruling House," Mr. T. A. Soong; to the younger sister of "China's Strongest War Lord," Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria. Other Soongs are the widow 'of Sainted Sun Yatsen, the wife of China's president, the wife of the last lineal descendant of Confucius, and Finance Minister T. V. Soong, "China's Mellon...
Under the old Chinese tariff there were five separate bureaus for collecting taxes on wine & loose tobacco, rolled tobacco, stamp, yarn, kerosene (China, unmotorized. uses far more kerosene than gasoline). The new Soong tariff may irk foreign exporters by raising all the rates, but it will vastly expedite shipments by reducing these five tax bureaus...
...tariff is not to take the place of the abolished likin. Minister Soong announced last week that provincial governments will have as a substitute a new "business tax" to be levied on a sliding scale of 1/5 to 1/10 of 1% of capital invested in the respective provinces...