Word: soong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bank of China headquarters in Chungking came rumblings last week of a 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...
...they say: 'sh-sh, you're back in New York, you know.' " Long-famed as an uninhibited collector of 1) the first engineering degree given a woman by the University of Wisconsin, 2) monkeys, 3) the lowdown, 4) U.S.-banked royalties on her best-selling The Soong Sisters, 5) Manila cigar ashes, Miss Hahn introduced a reporter to the most unconventional item in her Oriental collection: her two-year-old, Chinese-babbling daughter Carola...
...Citadel itself, the grim grey fortress where Roosevelt and Churchill lived and worked on the Plains of Abraham 300 ft. above the broad St. Lawrence River, went China's earnest Foreign Affairs Minister T. V. Soong-a hint that real action might be on its way in the Far East...
Japan, hoped T. V. Soong, "would be . . . ruled by a democratic government...