Word: tinges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan's warships, all her guns, for all her planes, for all her 10,000 sol diers and sailors, Shanghai's Chinese de fenders under pale slender little General Tsai Ting-kai were doggedly holding...
...Harbin, is Soviet-controlled. Many times Soviet troops have been stationed at Harbin as a "police force." But Russia was not ready for war with Japan last week. There were 100,000 Russian citizens but no Soviet troops in Harbin. Its defense was left to a Chinese general. Ting Chao. with a force of 30,000 men. Moscow remained inert, but the prevailing sentiment that the goings-on at Shanghai were the prelude to more entangled international developments was expressed in a headline in the Pravda, semi-official Moscow news organ: "One against another and all against China." Reports filtered...
Birthdays. Calvin Coolidge. Age: 58. Date: July 4. Celebration: opening mail at his Northampton, Mass, law office. From Lee Ting Quan, oldtime chef on the Presidential yacht Mayflower, now a Manhattan restaurateur, he received a 20-lb fruit cake decorated with rosebuds and green leaves...
...said: There has never been any attempt to define by law the limits of government action in China, nor has there been any constitutional provision for the protection of the rights and liberties of the people." Therefore the great powers were closely attentive, fortnight ago, when Foreign Minister Cheng-Ting ("C. T.") Wang cockily announced that his government had abolished the right ("extraterritoriality") of foreigners in China to be tried in their own consular courts (TIME, Jan. 6). For 48 hours it seemed as though foreigners were going to be subjected along with Chinese to the gross and notorious malfeasance...
...Chiang Kaishek. Less than a month ago the Nationalists were fighting desperately for their very existence; no one knew who would rule China from one day to the next. Last week, their authority temporarily reestablished, the Nationalists dusted their jackets, straightened their horn-rimmed spectacles, strutted again. Cocky Cheng Ting ("C. T.") Wang, Nationalist Foreign Minister, blandly disregarding riot and rebellion, announced that with the first of the year he would abolish the right of extraterritoriality in China, i.e. the right of foreign residents in China to be tried by their own consular courts...