Word: confucius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Professor Ludwig Harald Schütz 68, formidably learned German scholar, author of works on physics, the teachings of Confucius, the origin of language, the soul of Japan; in Frankfurt-am-Main. Master of 200 languages and dialects Dr. Schütz once put a U. S. Indian circus team in their place by informing them in their own tongue that they were not Sioux as they advertised, but Pawnees...
...lending China lots of money as sort of a scare to Japan and Hitler. But he wasn't quite sure about how that worked except he had a faint suspicion we might not get the money back. He didn't know much about Chinese culture except for the few "Confucius Say's" that went around the country a couple of years ago. Every now and then they flashed some picture of Peiping being bombed on the screen at the U.T. but he always felt that he had seen the pictures somewhere before. But for that matter other places were being...
Chungking. Halfway around the world, in embattled Chungking, the new U. S. stand on the East was felt. There, on Washington's Birthday, Chinese and U. S. citizens, celebrating before pictures of Washington and Confucius (both wearing swords), hailed the ties between the two countries. It was a farewell for genial Ambassador Nelson Johnson, now Minister to Australia. On hand was grey, dry, statistical Lauchlin Currie, most anonymous of President Roosevelt's "anonymous" administrative assistants, sent to China last month on a mission like Harry Hopkins' to England. In Washington little-known Lauchlin Currie was known...
...Structure in Chinese Word Conceptions," Professor V. R Chao, Yale University; February 26, "Chinese Political Thought," Professor Arthur N. Helcombe, of Harvard; March 5, "Comparative Law in China," Professor Roscoe Pound, former Dean of the Harvard Law School; March 12, "A Reconstruction of the Golden Mean According to Confucius," Dr. Yu-tang Lin; March 19, by Professor W. E. Hocking, of Harvard; and March 26, by Dr. Hu Shih...
...companion piece at the Met is "Murder Over New York," in which a new Charlie Chan tangles with a sabotage gang. The new Charlie runs as strongly to proverbs as did his predecessor, Warner Oland, but the late, unlamented fad of "Confucius Say's" has removed most of the punch from Oriental witticisms...