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...election is possible in the China of Chiang Kaishek. Shanghai's mayoralty with the administration of a budget of $3,000,000-one of the most important jobs in the East-is a direct appointment from Generalissimo Chiang. For five years Shanghai's mayor was suave General Wu Te-chen who became a national hero in the Japanese invasion of 1032 Last March Generalissimo Chiang decided that Mayor Wu might be getting to be too much of a hero, kicked him upstairs to the difficult post of Governor ot Kwangtung and gave this rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Sailors Ashore | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...week they were shelled to pieces by the guns of art-loving Admiral Yonai. Nearly half of Mayor Yui's great city was in flames and many thousands of his citizens were dead, but O. K. Yui has a chance of becoming a far greater hero than Mayor Wu ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Sailors Ashore | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

Singles: Burt (H) defeated Braunlich (MIT) 6-0, 6-1; Gilkey (H) defeated Keitel (MIT) 6-1, 6-0; Legg (H) defeated Rustad (MIT) 6-2, 6-2; Palfrey (H) defeated Wu (MIT) 6-2, 6-2; Millar (MIT) defeated Brooks (H) 8-10, 6-3, 6-2; Wynn (H) defeated Rumsey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Netmen Rout Tech 8-1 in Match Here Yesterday | 5/14/1937 | See Source »

Doubles: Burt-Gilkey (H) defeated Braunlich-Keitel 6-3, 6-1; Legg-Palfrey (H) defeated Rustad-Schnorr 6-4, 6-1; Starr Witherby (H) defeated Tonti Wu...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Netmen Rout Tech 8-1 in Match Here Yesterday | 5/14/1937 | See Source »

...walk away, is closely contested. Three candidates from China and one from Hawaii seem to be neck and neck at the amazing total of two letters each. They are, respectively, Y. Ku of Peiping, C. Y. Le of Nanking, P. S. Ou of Kwangsu, and H. K. M. Wu of Honolulu. Although there is probably no basis for awarding the palm to any particular one, Mr. P. S. Ou, by the originality of his cognomen, seems to be predominant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nimmanahaeminda Is Longest Harvard Name; Ou, Ku, Wu, Lo Tie for Shortest | 2/3/1937 | See Source »

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