Word: ta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the years, politically independent Editor Kung, whose readers call him Ta Pao Hsiensheng ("Mister Big Cannon"), has fired at an impressive variety of targets, often in terms far beyond occidental ideas of press freedom. His most abiding hates have been the Japanese, the Chinese Communists and Kuomintang corruption. It was Editor Kung who started the criticism that helped sweep Finance Minister T. V. Soong out of office (in 1933), and his attacks have helped unsettle at least three cabinets. Two years ago, David Kung, son of former Finance Minister H. H. Kung and nephew of Madame Chiang, was accused...
...world's most comfortable beats. Life in the walled university city, the base for covering North China, was graceful, unhurried, and for a foreigner with U.S. dollars comparatively cheap. Newsmen came for brief visits and, taken by Peiping's ancient charms, often stayed on for months in Ta Tien Shui Ching Hutung (Big Sweet Water Well Alley), Peiping's correspondents...
...called a criminal! How can we talk with such people?" Vice President Li's name was also on the Red blacklist, but Li took a less personal view of China's crisis; he was still willing to negotiate. Other Kuomintang leaders stood with Chiang. The newspaper Ta Rang Pao railed against "peace politicians who let themselves be mouthpieces for Stalin" and "peace rumors that sugar-coat a poison designed to crush the Chinese government...
...Democrat. Fighting the Japanese, he suffered several crushing defeats; to save his face, Chiang gave him ringing government titles. In 1946 Feng told the Generalissimo that he wanted to go to the U.S. to study water conservation and act as good-will ambassador for Chiang. "Whatever you wish, Ta Ko [Big Brother]," said Chiang. Ever since then, Feng has been in the U.S., making violent proCommunist, anti-Chiang propaganda. Cried he of Chiang: "Reactionary . . . dictator . . . traitor ... his rule must be overthrown...
...course if ya wanta go ta Wellesley, take Route...