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Ryan to Lyon. The signal for peace on the East Coast came one morning last week during a midwatch hour in a New York hotel. Cyrus S. Ching, federal mediator and peacemaker, had put the shipowners in one room and the A.F.L. longshoremen in another. For the better part of the night Ching's aides shuttled from the weary group of operators, presided over by New York Shipping Association Chairman John V. Lyon, to the grim group of 125 labor delegates, presided over by Longshore Boss Joseph P. Ryan. Around 3 a.m., the operators gave...
...Kuomintang (National People's Party). There was plenty of soldiering to be done. Chiang became Sun's trusted lieutenant. He also found time to marry the girl his mother had picked out for him, and to have a son whom he named Chiang Ching...
Another measure of failure was hoarding and civil corruption. Chiang had called in son Ching-kuo (TIME, Sept. 20) to take charge of harsh drives against black markets in Shanghai. But the drive bogged down, Chinese said, when Chiang's police discovered hoarded goods in the godowns of David Kung, son of Banker H. H. Kung and nephew of Madame Chiang. The Shanghai press screamed for action, but a few days later David Kung with Madame Chiang visited the Gimo. The case was still "under investigation...
...miles in diameter around the rail town of Nienchuang. In eleven days of fighting Huang had lost 40,000 troops. From his position north of the Lunghai railway, General Li was punching east to relieve Huang. In a parallel position south of the railway, Lieut. General Chiu Ching-chuan's Second Army Group was also pushing east...
...What Shall We Do?" In the main battle, east of Suchow, government troops were forced to retreat. A mechanized group under General Chiu Ching-chuan (whose second in command is the Gimo's younger son, Chiang Wei-kuo) broke up a Communist attempt at encirclement, and helped other Nationalist divisions to fight their way back to the west and south. The well-watered North Kiangsu plain seethed like an ant heap with soldiers on the move, as Government Field Commander General Tu Yu-ming desperately shifted his men over rutted roads and torn-up rail tracks to establish...