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...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...
Next day scholarly Dr. Sun Fo, president of the Legislative Yuan, made public the Government's plan for broadening its base. The State Council would be revived to become the top governing body. Non-Kuomintang members would be given seats; in effect, the Council would be a coalition, with the Kuomintang holding a dominant position...