Word: yat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first part of the examination consists of 50 short questions that require no more than a line to answer, such as: Who is Sun Yat Sen? Who holds the world's automobile speed record? Who is Judge Cardoza? The remaining part of the examination is designed to take two hours. From a list of twelve essay topics, three subjects must be chosen and a concise essay of from 250 to 600 words written on each subject. Sample questions are: Discuss England and the gold standard, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and Issues left unsettled by the Treaty of Versailles
...shek (see col. 2) last week raised an echoing rumble from Shanghai. In Shanghai lives a demigod's relict, the widow of the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen, who lies in a $3,000,000 tomb outside Nanking, venerated as the prophet of the Chinese Republic. Mme Sun Yat-sen was educated at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. and Wellesley. She is a sister-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek and a member of the "Soong Dynasty," the family that controlled the Nationalist Government. But like her Russian counterpart, Krupskaya, widow of the great Lenin, Mme Sun Yat-sen lives...
...last week the new laws had made little mention of divorce. Formerly husbands could declare themselves divorced, as did famed Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kaishek, and marry again without much trouble; dissatisfied wives had to bear their lot. The December enactments of the Yueh Fa gave wives the right to instigate proceedings, but did not specify the proceedings. Last week Dr. Wang's theories on divorce became Chinese statutes...
...English-born Jewish trick-shot pistol expert, was gazetted by the Canton Government last week a Brigadier General. Brigadier General Cohen says he was born in London, says it with the accent and gestures of a New York East Sider. From 1921 until the death of great Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1925, "Sure Shot" Cohen was the personal bodyguard of the Father of the Chinese Republic...
...Chen is the master propagandist of China. A fearless editor in his own right, he learned propaganda as assistant to the Soviet master of that art, Comrade Michael Borodin, whom Dr. Sun Yat Sen borrowed from Moscow and whom Marshal Chiang cast out after he had prepared Chiang's conquest. Last week Mr. Chen plastered all Canton (fourth largest Chinese city) with propaganda posters of Soviet type ridiculing President Chiang. The wasp-waisted, bandy-legged little President was shown perched ludicrously oh the Manchu Throne, bedight as Emperor of China. This cartoon, it was hoped, would "inflame the people...