Word: tong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first reporting assignments (part-time for the San Francisco News): "I think I am going to like being a reporter as soon as I get a little more confidence." In China he got it fast. Paying his own fare out to Shanghai, Jacoby wangled a job under Dr. Hollington Tong, was delegated to reorganize Chungking's radio broadcasting. When he had got U.S. hookups for Madame Chiang Kaishek, her sisters (Madame Kung and Madame Sun Yat-sen), he headed home via Indo-China. He stopped over eight months, got arrested for taking pictures during the Jap invasion, came...
Though amiable Vice Minister Hollington Tong's Publicity Board probably mixed a large measure of wishful thinking with its account of the victory, there could be no doubt that Chinese troops had achieved one of the most savage bloodlettings of the long war. They had also proved that they could hold their central China lines intact while dispatching crack divisions to aid hard-pressed Allies in Burma...
...Brilliant Chinese leaders by the score owe their education to American universities. A chief official of the Chinese information ministry, Hollington K. Tong, is a graduate of the journalism schools of the Universities of Missouri and Columbia. Our schools of journalism have had more effect, proportionately, on Chinese newspapers than...
With the annual baseball game between the two rivals scheduled for Wednesday, May 22, the tong war threatens to break out anew, however...