Word: yen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is only death," sighed a dainty dancer at a huge protest rally in Shanghai's New Fairy Forest ballroom last week. A delegation of ten, led by graceful, limpid-eyed Meng Yen, queen of the Metro-Goldwyn (no kin to Hollywood) dance hall, was promptly dispatched to Nanking. From headquarters at the Security and Happiness Hotel, Yen and her henchwomen bore down on the National Economic Council, the Ministries of the Interior and Social affairs, the Legislative Yuan. Functionaries sent word that they were out, so the girls left notes...
...Americans are paying for it," Professor Kang answered. "The American Military Government in Korea has just given us 5,000,000 yen ($333,000) and equipment and supplies worth much more -automobiles, gasoline, shoes and cots; and we think if we behave ourselves somebody will give us more. We also have an American colonel as adviser to General Li Bum Suk, who heads the Boy Scout movement...
...Shans? province, walrus-mustached old Governor Yen Hsi-shan (once known as the "Model Governor" because he suppressed the opium traffic) had enough forces to defend his dilapidated capital, Taiyuan. But he could not move against the Communists who now held almost three-fifths of the province. A lot of Communists had filtered into rich south Shansi when the Government withdrew troops for the attack on Yenan. "We traded a fat cow for a skeleton," say bitter men in Taiyuan. Shansi people used to admire...
...Yen Hsi-shan because he fought his wars in the enemies' provinces. That time has passed. Last week, a TIME correspondent asked Yen what would happen if the Government cannot relieve Taiyuan...
...Yen's answer was a masterpiece of Coolidgean understatement: "In that case many people will be poorly dressed." Yen added: "There will be no salt, and that is bad for the bones...