Word: tong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among other things, the interview was not exclusive : Cecil Dickson of the Gan nett newspapers was along; so was Vice Minister of Information Hollington Tong, who pointed out, with Chinese courtesy, that Taylor must have suffered from a "misunderstanding." U.S. Ambassador Pat Hurley was not so gentle. Said...
...classrooms in the bombproof Press Hostel, nine typewriters locally valued at $1,200 each, and 32 cub-reporting students, Chungking's new Graduate School of Journalism of the Central Political Institute got under way last week. The founder and director is polished, ingratiating, 56-year-old Dr. Hollington Tong, pressagent extraordinary to the Chiang Kai-shek regime and biographer of the Gissimo...
...idea that China could well use as many highly trained journalists as were available long ago impressed itself on Vice Minister of Information Tong. "While touring the U.S. with Madame Chiang last winter, Columbia-Man Tong enlisted the aid of Columbia's Dean of Journalism Carl Ackerman. They got anonymous donors to put up $75,000; further funds were acquired in China...
Hollington Tong plans to have the cubs publish a newspaper. U.S. newsmen in Chungking last week were wondering how closely such a sheet could resemble a free press. Chungking is as bound by censorship as it is by mud. Its newspapers have been forbidden to discuss such glaring but officially nonexistent topics as inflation...
Modest Hollington Tong, 56, is Chiang's main official link with the English-speaking world. Officially, he is Vice Minister of Publicity, unofficially the Gissimo's interpreter (Madame sits by and interprets Tong's interpretations). Tong accompanied Madame to the U.S. last November...