Word: soong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan. But the European War lessened probability of aid from the white man. In Hong Kong, for instance, which has been the centre of Chinese financial juggling, the British announced that they could no longer allow unrestricted exchange of currencies. China's financial brain, Harvard-educated T. V. Soong, immediately went inland to Chungking, taking with him most of China's financial resources, human and material...
...power of the famed Soong sisters of China has long been an open book. The influence of Magda Lupescu, mistress of Carol II of Rumania, is openly acknow edged in Rumania. But the role that Edda Ciano, née Mussolini, has played in the momentous recent realignments of European nations, has been half concealed by a regime which refuses to admit women in politics. The Official Life of Benito Mussolini, by Giorgio Pini, a translation of which was recently published in London, allots only three short sentences to Daughter Edda: 1) to report her birth; 2) to tell about...
...Gunther Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is the "strongest man China has produced for generations, and a terrific disciplinarian. . . . Chiang is the symbol, the personification, the cement, of Chinese unity and resistance against Japan." The famous and thoroughly publicized, U. S.-educated Soong family-three sisters, three brothers, two brothers-in-law-represents "one of the most striking agglutinations of personal power in the world." Soong Meiling, Mme Chiang Kaishek, the "most brilliant of the three sisters," is the "second most powerful personage in China," i.e., after her husband. Warily Author Gunther halfway predicts a long stalemate...
...Berlin, winner of a 1933 Pulitzer Prize for his despatches on the rise of Hitler, and author of Germany Puts the Clock Back-the book that got him kicked out of Germany. Last year he spent several months in Central and North China, interviewed foreigners, Chinese, the "Amazing Soong Family," watched a Japanese bombing massacre with U. S.-made planes, saw the guerrillas in action behind the Japanese lines...
...problems of turning out a newspaper in Bermuda are many and complex, the foremost being the difficulty of obtaining news. Next to this comes the problem of finding out the color of the Names in the News. When Bermudians read about T. V. Soong or F. D. Roosevelt or H. Selassie, they like to close their eyes and visualize, and they can't do this unless told the exact hue of these celebrities...