Word: tai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...masks his activities as an American undercover agent, or spy, with a job as crack reporter for Amalgamated Press, (this touch was rather a bold answer to Red charges last summer about William Oatis). As this episode opens, he is off to get a statement from General Wang Tai, head of the Nationalist, forces on Formosa ("All names and places are fictitious...
...tireless labors of U.S. Colonel Charles R. Munske, 54, a bluff, benevolent reservist from Brooklyn. As chief of the U.N. Civil Assistance Command for Seoul and the province of Kyonggi, Colonel Munske is nominally only an adviser to Seoul's U.S.-educated Mayor Kim Tai Sun. Actually, he works a minimum of twelve hours a day, seven days a week, coping with the city's problems. Seoul's rebuilding came to a dead stop recently when contractors ran out of nails. Munske begged and borrowed some wire, started a nail factory...
...Seoul, Mayor Kim Tai Sun presented Eighth Army Commander General James A. Van Fleet with a scroll, an eight-inch silver key, a bouquet of roses and pronounced him honorary mayor of the city on its 558th anniversary as capital of Korea. A few days later, Mayor Sun was out of office. The R.O.K. government inspection committee dismissed him for embezzling several hundred million won of government funds...
...headquarters house, two blocks away. This headquarters, which stood between low hills on the outskirts of Kaesong, had been assigned and furnished by the Communists; the U.N. staff refurnished it with articles trucked up from Munsan. Outside the headquarters house was a stone tablet bearing the words Yung-ting Tai-meaning Everlasting Stability Terrace...