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...Letters about this new edition have come in from such people as the Gissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Mme. Sun Yatsen, Finance Minister H. H. Kung, General Wu Techen...
...major political upheaval. While grey-gowned clerks delicately fingered their abacuses in the cold, smoky counting rooms, directors of the bank reclined in rattan chairs, sipped tea, and ousted their fiery chairman, brilliantly able Dr. T. V. Soong. Successor: his politically potent brother-in-law, Dr. H. H. Kung...
...message which reached the U.S. last week, this independent member of the potent Soong family (sisters, Mmes. Chiang Kaishek, H. H. Kung; brothers, T. V. and T. L.) spoke in her sharpest vein. Said...
...Quaker. During World War I he became a British mail censor, was jailed after boasting how he had outsmarted Britain as a spy. Released an Anglophobe, he tried to help German militarists back into power, eventually sold out to France. In the mid-'20s Chinese Buddhist Abbot Chao Kung was identified as Trebitsch-Lincoln reincarnate, founder of the "League of Truth." In 1926 he was allowed to return to the side of his British soldier son Ignatius (a condemned murderer), lost his race with the hangman, repented of his wicked life. In 1938 he transcendentalized: "I am still...
Finance Minister H. H. Kung gave a reception. Social Welfare Minister Ku Cheng-kang and Minister of Education Chen Li-fu took part in the conference...