Word: taipans
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Cordell Hull last week promised the Government of Free China that there would be no more extraterritoriality in China, from Shanghai came the perfect epitaph for Shanghai's plutocracy. It was not the work of a taipan but of brilliant, crotchety British Lawyer Ranald McDonald, an ornament of Shanghai's bar and bars. At the Council's April meeting he had shrilled a speech that might have been drafted either by Mr. Pickwick or an early Shanghai missionary...