Word: ying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whampoa Military Academy as blackshirts and himself as an almond-eyed Mussolini. Even this would not work unless he could find someone to take young Marshal Chang's place at Peiping to hold the north for him. For days he bargained frantically with three possible candidates: Ho Ying-chin. Minister of War in the Wang Cabinet; Han Fu-chu, War Lord of Shantung; old Marshal Wu Pei-fu, the Scholar War Lord. The three candidates remained coy, having discovered two highly objectionable tin cans attached to this offer: 1) the new lord of Peiping can expect no subsidy from...
...while puzzled Chinese were trying to realize the trouble in the South, even more violent war broke out to the northward. The "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang and Northern Generals Shih Yu-san and Sun Tien-ying moved their combined forces (110,000 men) across Honan Province, threatening the juncture of the Lung-Hai and Peiping-Hankow railways, then started north through Hopei Province, apparently bound for the port of Tientsin. Nationalist Manchurian troops along this front were leaderless, since Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, Vice Commander-in-Chief of the Nationalist Army, Navy and Air Force, was in a Peiping...
...chairman will be J. S. Tow, Acting Chinese Consul General in New York, who, not so occupied with tourists & immigrants as other consuls general, may devote much time to keeping peace among the Tongs. Signer of the pact for the Hip Sing Tong was its President, Author Eng Ying ("Eddie") Gong (TIME, June 2). When the six leaders had signed it, scribes translated the document into brushstrokes on cerise paper, sent it to every U. S. Chinatown, proclaiming Consul Tow and Commissioner Mulrooney overlords of all U. S. Chinese...
TONG WAR-!?Eng Ying Gong and Bruce Grant?Nicholas L. Brown...
Author Eng Ying (Eddie) Gong, proprietor of an Americanized restaurant at No. 1 Pell Street (nucleus of Manhattan's Chinatown) observed, noted, took part in tong warfare, wrote an inside story of it. Along came Reporter Bruce Grant, who read the story, realized that it was an expose exciting and spectacular enough to appeal to underworld-minded readers, was the first authentic history of the tongs ever written, was a splendid scoop. He wrote Author Gong's manuscript into reportorial text. All Reporter Grant needed was a rewrite...