Word: soong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wesleyan's Soong...
Several times you have mentioned Wellesley College as the educational institution attended by Mme Chiang Kaishek. Two of the Misses Soong attended Wesleyan College, in Macon, Ga. Is it possible these two colleges have been confused? The latter is a Methodist institution and the oldest chartered women's college in the world. What...
...once more the "guest" of Banker T. V. Soong (TIME, Jan. 4) and last week played around the Nanking Country Club golf course accompanied by soldiers carrying eight submachine guns "in readiness." The city of Sian. scene of the kidnapping, was reported in unconfirmed dispatches to have been taken over by a Chinese Communist army, and jittery Japanese continued to fear that the Premier's fantastic kidnapping and its fantastic sequels were largely a blind to distract world attention from a drawing together of Chiang's China and Stalin's Russia for united war on Japan...
...Sian official for Texas Co., one George Fitch, contributed to the dispute by arriving in Nanking to say that, so far as he knew, the persons principally concerned (Dictator Chiang, Mme Chiang, Brother Soong, Adviser Donald and the Young Marshal) got out of Sian only by a ruse in which they tricked General Yang Fu-cheng, whose troops had high-jacked the kidnapping. Oilman Fitch confirmed that the city of Weinan, which had absolutely nothing to do with the case, had been wiped out and said he thought 400 Chinese in Sian, also bystanders, had been "exe-cuted...
...pride of modern-style, foreign-educated Chinese to be "just like Americans" in using initials. Mr. Soong (Harvard, 1915), if he wrote his name the old-fashioned Chinese way, would be Soong Tse-wen, but he chooses to be T. V. Soong, and never in any circumstances Tse-wen Soong. This last would give any Chinese the jitters and is not only incorrect but "impossible"-like speaking of Roosevelt Frank-lin Delano. Mr. Soong's brother-in-law, Dr. H. H. Kung, was originally Kung Hsiang-hsi, therefore took the initials...