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Operation Giant Bear. When the Generalissimo first appointed him to the economic post last month, Chiang Ching-kuo started out quietly by ordering price ceiling lists displayed at all markets, and setting up post boxes for citizens' complaints. A hundred plainclothes agents were assigned to comb streets and markets for price violators and hoarders...
...organizer of the procession was the man in charge of defending the new gold yuan currency in Shanghai, deputy economic controller Major General Chiang Ching-kuo, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Russian-educated elder son. A chubby, earnest man who looks much younger than his 39 years, Chiang believes in going to the people. On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons he holds open house in his office in Shanghai's Central Bank of China to hear the public's complaints...
...Please Do Something." One recent Thursday, the suppliants in Chiang Ching-kuo's office included a grey-gowned businessman, a woman soothing a black-diapered baby, and a laborer in loose jacket and black cloth coolie pants. Trim in an open-necked, short-sleeved white shirt, Chiang listened like a good ward boss to his visitors' problems. The businessman had a complaint about taxes; the laborer vehemently reported that though the rubber goods plant where he worked was well stocked with raw materials, the boss had decided to close down rather than sell his products...
Pork & Perfume. Chiang Ching-kuo had little sympathy for the jailed moneymen. After graduating from the Moscow Military Academy in 1930, he went to the Soviet Trans-Caucasus for practical engineering work. Speaking of this period he once said: "I had numberless hard days. I did the lowest sort of work. I have spent a night in a rubbish barrel ... I survived, thanks to father's teaching: 'Man's spirit is omnipotent-not money...
...Techniques of Scranton. Forty-eight-year-old Chen, like 60-year-old Chiang, was born in Chekiang province. Of eight brothers, only he and Chen Kuo-fu (eight years older and now the serene, tuberculous director of the powerful Farmers' Bank of China) are still alive. Chen's childhood was poor and insecure. But among Chen's kin was an uncle, doughty Chen Chi-mei, revolutionary general and patron of young Chiang Kaishek. On his deathbed, Uncle Chen summoned Chiang...