Word: yuan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside the Kuomintang, liberal elements -men unhappily without much power-are starting to demand changes. Founder Sun Yat-sen's scholarly son, Sun Fo, President of the Legislative Yuan, asked Premier T. V. Soong this week to attend the Legislative Yuan's meeting and answer questions on the economic plight of China. T. V. didn't show...
...bitter public gossip about banquets for a few while millions starved (TIME, May 6) echoed in China's Executive Yuan. Under Premier T. V. Soong, the Nanking Government ordered all civil servants to observe austerity. Items: no lavish gifts or ceremonies, no dancing. Those who enter taxi dancehalls or "any improper place" and those who "invite prostitutes or singsong girls to amuse them" would be fired...
...streets in November 1906. It was not much of a place to look at-four whitewashed rooms in what had been an old inn. The original staff consisted merely of a gatekeeper, a janitor and the doctor. They hung out a black-and-gold lacquered sign reading Yali I Yuan (Yale Court of Medicine), and patients began to drift in. Yali I Yuan was the first Yale-in-China medical unit, forerunner of Hsiang Ya ("Hsiang" for Hunan, "Ya" for Yale) Hospital and Medical School...
...Able, Western-minded T. V. Soong, President of the Executive Yuan and the Generalissimo's brother...
...Scholarly, liberal Dr. Sun Fo, 54, son of the great Sun Yat-sen and President of the Legislative Yuan...