Word: yuans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...China was Dr. Hu Shih, president of the University of Peking and former Ambassador to the U.S. Last week Dr. Hu Shih said of the U.S.: "Don't they see there's a fire raging here, a fire they helped start?" The liberal president of the Legislative Yuan in Nanking, Sun Fo, scoffed at the Wedemeyer suggestion that Chinese Communists show their devotion to China by laying down their arms. Said Sun: "It's like playing music before...
Chinese Premier Chang Chun had two messages to send last week: one for the U.S., one for China. The day after his inauguration, he reported at 9 a.m. to his new office in the green-roofed Executive Yuan building, and after recalling his last year's trip to New York (for medical treatment), sent this message...
Instead of Tea. Thursday afternoon, in this atmosphere, T.V. invited all 30 members of the standing committee of the People's Political Council to the Executive Yuan for tea. But the implacable Fu led 17 fellow committeemen in a boycott of the Premier's party. Word went round that T.V. would have a rough time at the upcoming Legislative Yuan...
...Saturday morning, T.V. strode into the grey brick Legislative Yuan building. None of the waiting rank & file knew what was impending. T.V. took a seat facing them, in the center of a long curved table. He was hatless, but in the chilly hall he wore his overcoat and kept a blue-and-red muffler up to his chin. On the chairman's dais behind him sat rotund Sun Fo, Legislative Yuan president, and over Sun's head hung the inevitable portrait of the chairman's father, Sun Yatsen, with the words "Tien hsia wei kung" -Everything...