Word: tientsin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summers ago the five whites were cursing their luck in Tientsin's sleazy port. Waiter Muller and George Schroeder, two brawny mechanics, were tired of snatching purses. Hamfisted, square-headed Heinrich Westermann had failed in Shanghai as a restaurant keeper, then as a butcher despite Shanghai's boom. Eagerly these three Germans fell in with a plan proposed by a smooth German seafarer. Captain Hugo Taudien, who talked figures bigger than kidnap money. Rat-faced Arthur Gautschi, a Swiss ex-convict, was cut in on the project because, as an ex-silk tester, he was thought to have...
...June 26, 1933, Captain Taudien & friends boarded the stinking but seaworthy Chinese cargo steamer Sheng An near Tientsin. Cried her Russian master Captain Boris Vikhmann, "Ah, my good friend Captain Taudien, this voyage will be a joy!" In five minutes the German had persuaded the Russian to trust him and his friends for their passage money to Foochow (1,500 miles), where the Sheng An was to deliver a cargo of coal...
...week was an obvious Japanese threat to Mongol chieftains to mind their manners. Nanking's complaisance was a fair admission that China's Nationalist Government was resigned to the eventual loss of Chahar, probably in return for a promise that for a little while yet, Peiping and Tientsin will not be captured...
...both (in addition to both Open Championships) in 1930. Last week, the golfer who played Goldman in the final had a chance to do the same thing. Huge, round-faced William Lawson Little learned his golf on a course laid out on the site of a graveyard near Tientsin where his Army-Officer Father was stationed. He beat an unemployed carpenter in the final of the British Amateur at Prestwick last spring (TIME, June 4). Last week in Brookline Golfer Little had, as usual, been driving the ball 250 to 260 yd. Among other able opponents, he had beaten young...
Smutting the sky with great streaks of black smoke, a pack of Japanese destroyers swooped down in attack formation last week upon Taku, the bustling port entrance for Tientsin and Peiping. So far as jittery, defenseless Chinese could see, Japan had simply decided to seize Taku, striking as usual without a declaration...