Word: taos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington this week Chinese Ambassador Wei Tao-ming inked his paint brush and with delicate strokes inscribed his signature on a new U.S. treaty abolishing U.S. extraterritoriality rights and other special privileges in China. His co-signer was Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who said: "All of us have looked forward to this...
Petite, witty, 48-year-old Mme. Wei Tao-ming, high-born wife of China's new Ambassador to Washington, has devoted her life to the expression and defense of new ideas. At eight she tore the painful bandages from her feet; at 14 she bolted a parentally arranged marriage with the son of the Governor of Canton; at 17 she joined Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries, smuggled bombs for the assassination of Manchu officials. After a French education she became China's first woman lawyer and judge...
...Received the new Chinese Ambassador, short, smiling, 45-year-old Dr. Wei Tao-Ming. Said Dr. Wei: "China must-and China certainly wants to-start an offensive, an offensive that cannot be started without adequate supplies and the complete cooperation of the United States. Such an offensive, I am fairly convinced, would end the War of the Pacific in a year or less...
...diplomats of any nation have been more popular in the U.S. than slight, charming Hu Shih, China's foremost living scholar, China's Ambassador to the U.S. since 1938. Last week Chiang Kai-shek recalled Ambassador Hu, replaced him with Dr. Wei Tao-ming. The Gissimo...
...rainy honeymoon in a cottage at Tagaytay. But they were not alone; they had to see to the care & feeding of two baby giant pandas, gifts of Madame Chiang Kaishek, en route to the U.S. Their magnificent wedding presents from Chinese officials-red satin embroidered blankets, silver filigree china, Tao silver and bamboo vases-went up in smoke a week later when Manila fell...