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...Mayor Yui. The potent figure of Chiang Kai-shek had last week not yet appeared directly on the Shanghai front Chinese commander at Shanghai was a little known war lord named Chang Chi-chung. More important politically was the mayor of greater (Chinese) Shanghai, Yu Hung-chun who prefers to Americanize his name to Mr. O. K. Yui. Nothing so simple as a direct municipal election is possible in the China of Chiang Kaishek. Shanghai's mayoralty with the administration of a budget of $3,000,000-one of the most important jobs in the East-is a direct...
Pride of O. K. Yui was the city's $8,000,000 Civic Centre, a group of white marble buildings as imposing as anything in the International Settlement. Last week they were shelled to pieces by the guns of art-loving Admiral Yonai. Nearly half of Mayor Yui's great city was in flames and many thousands of his citizens were dead, but O. K. Yui has a chance of becoming a far greater hero than Mayor Wu ever...
...ling Yui is a partner of Swan, Culbertson & Fritz, which last week applied for membership in the New York Stock Exchange. If the application is accepted, the Stock Exchange will admit its first Chinese member-firm partner. Though Swan, Culbertson & Fritz will have its Manhattan office with Hayden, Stone & Co., the main office will be in Shanghai where the firm and Partner Khe-ling Yui have done business for a long time...
...delegations. Son MacDonald, himself a delegate, hobnobbed with the chief delegates: Jerome Davis Greene of the U. S. (partner, Lee, Higginson & Co.); Baron Hailsham of Britain (recently Lord Chancellor); Dr. Inazo Nitobe of Japan (onetime Under-Secretary of the League of Nations); Dr. David Z. T. Yui of China (confidential spokesman of the Nationalist Government...
Chinese Dynamite. Instituters are fond of the words "dare" and "dynamite." They boast that at their round tables the unofficial delegates rush in where statesmen dare not, grapple with questions too dynamitey for diplomacy. Chinese Chief Delegate David Z. T. Yui took the Instituters at their word last week. At the first session, before formalities were even disposed of, he leaped up and shrilly accused Japan of using murder as an instrument of national policy. This accusation should have had special interest for John D. Rockefeller III. He had dined a few days before with the son of the murdered...