Word: soong
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hearten War Lord Tang last week, young Marshal Chang and famed Chinese Finance Minister T. V. Soong who is now "Acting Premier" made the unprecedented move (for Chinese statesmen) of venturing into the threatened province, Jehol. Bumping out from Peiping, risking a Japanese bombing raid on their way, they entered Chengteh through a triumphal arch provided by War Lord Tang...
Month ago nimble-witted Finance Minister T. V. Soong announced that for the first time since China became a Republic her dumbbell finances were whirling in a balanced rhythm (TIME, Jan. 2). Last week popular demands that China spend millions to fight Japan were enough to drive Juggler Soong frantic. Nonchalant instead, he reached for a lottery...
...Soong asked Chinese patriots to buy $5,600,000 worth of lottery tickets, promised to pay lucky patriots exactly half this sum in lottery prizes totaling $2,800,000. Of the Government's profit half will go "to purchase airplanes and for the building of roads." Such a prospect so vexed the Japanese war office that U. S. Ambassador Grew was again forced to deny U. S. connivance...
Died. Margaret Phillips Mathewson, 23, wife of Lieut. Christopher Mathewson Jr., son of the late, great baseball pitcher, aviation instructor at Hangchow, China; a fortnight after marriage, on her first flight with her husband; of injuries suffered when Mathewson crashed Chinese Finance Minister T. V. Soong's amphibian plane on a Whangpoo River mudflat; near Lunghua, China...
Lest the Kuomintang cheer up too much and start a spending orgy, Dr. Soong spoke ominously of "facing an apparent deficit for 1933 of $40,000,000." By the most extreme economy, which he called "cutting Government expenses to a skeleton," Dr. Soong hopes but does not predict that China's budget may be made to balance next year at about...