Word: yin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yin Ju-keng, a Chinese creature of General Doihara, closed the week's Oriental frolic on dangerous ground by proclaiming "autonomous" not the five enormous North China provinces but 25 medium-sized North China districts with a combined population of 5,000,000. He called his new "Government" the Autonomous Federation for Joint Defense Against Communism...
...this development Japanese Army leaders said their troops would cross the Great Wall at "the first sign of disorder." Simultaneously Yin announced as the capital of his regime Tungchow, only twelve miles east of Peiping and a leading Chinese educational centre not far from Yenching University whose calm, clear-headed President John Leighton Stuart is now in Manhattan. Highly excited, Yenching's Chinese, American & European faculty leaders this week joined fiery Chinese Philosopher Hu Shih in a manifesto demanding that the Nanking Government "use the energies of the entire nation to maintain the territorial and administrative integrity of China...
Last week Japan and the Nanking Government angled for the war lords of North China with counter bribes, appeals and threats. Japan appeared to land two at once. Sung Cheh-yuan, Chinese commandant of the Peiping and Tientsin garrisons, and Yin Ju-keng, commissioner of the demilitarized zone in North China, who obligingly sent out a general telegram demanding autonomy for North China. Doubtful Japanese catches were Chahar's Governor Hsiao Chen-yung and Suiyuan's Governor Fu Tso-yi. The Chinese Government meanwhile appeared to land Shang Chen, Governor of Hopei. It went on angling hopefully...
Charles Coburn, as the Chorus, gives a good, but by no means brilliant performance in a rather colourless part. Mrs. Coburn also does well as Chee Moo, the first wife of Wu Sin Yin the Great. But the whole business is a definitely pedestrian affair. The only really attractive character is Tso (Mary Hutchinson). As the scheming maid she is intriguing...
...Chicago, huge Primo Camera stalked warily about the ring, actually retreating from but trying to make it look as Krakow though he were ("Kingfish" advancing Levinsky), against 197-lb. Harry fish-peddler, who looked like a pigmy in the ring with his 6-ft. yin. 270-lb. opponent. In the first round, an upward right-hand sweep from Kingfish Levinsky landed on the side of the pendulous Camera jaw, caused the monstrous Camera knees to buckle. Thereafter, wary and furious by turns, using all his weight, reach and slight knowledge of tactics, Carnera managed to maul, push, lambaste Levinsky enough...