Word: ting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time a direct and easy access to the sea. Ominous seemed the fact that the Foreign Minister of the Fukien Government is notorious Chen Yu-jen (Eugene Chen), long the Communistically inclined stormy petrel of South China politics. As War Minister the new state has General Tsai Ting-kai, famed commander of the 19th Route Army in its deathless defense of Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Governor Li Chai-sum of Kwangsi Province was styled the "Chairman" (President) of the new Government but Chinese called him a mere front for Red Eugene Chen...
...Ramsay MacDonald. "They began by rattling President Roosevelt's new powers like a bag of tools," smiled Sir Josiah. "They hoped he might never have to use them, but he has had to take them out of the bag one after the other, and now they are get ting a bit scared about the more extreme instruments. . . . There is a suspicion that the NRA is putting up costs and not increasing purchasing power. ... In all countries except Russia the mainspring of employment is profit. Keep profits in sight and you go on. . . . Production in the United States...
...smuggled guns. Some 40,000 of them boiled down from the mountains, swept a small local army out of their way. Up to meet them swaggered Canton's 19th Route Army, famed for its defense of Shanghai last year against the Japanese, commanded by hollow-cheeked General Tsai Ting-kai. Outnumbered, the 19th Route Army fought for four days last week over broken country, lost more than 2.000 men, two regimental commanders. General Tsai retreated to fortifications near Lungyen, only 100 mi. northwest of the important seaport of Amoy. Falling back again from Lungyen, he called for reinforcements...
King George had more than one reason for fêting the winner. He held a ticket on Hyperion in the sweepstakes of London's swank Maryborough Club. In Queens, N. Y. plump Telephone Operator Louise M. Popp. 27, won $118,500 with a 82 Irish sweepstakes ticket on Hyperion. John Byron, 73, Staten Island messenger, won $40,000 on Statesman...
Five fellowships have been awarded by the Harvard-Yenching Institute, established in 1928, for teaching and research in the language, literature, history, and art of China and Japan. Holders of the awards are Derk Bodde, of Rochester, N. Y., B. G. Creel, of Peiping, China, and Kwoh-ting Wang, of Nanking, China, who are not at present enrolled at the University, and E. O. Roschauer 2G, of Tokyo, Japan, and C. S. Sickman 3G of Denvor, Colorado...