Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could understand Director Owen's willingness, which he presently disclosed, to accept ?30,000 for the conduct of "experiments" at his Institute preliminary to the four-year plan. Impressive letters on stationery headed Treasury and Imperial Conference gave Swindler Owen the cachet not only of honor but of friendship with the great. Soon Dr. Owen got Oxford to give him an honorary M. A. He pretended that he already had the rank of Doctor (of Engineering), a rank highly esteemed in Europe.* He went about Oxford arm-in-arm with England's intellectually great and smart. Dr. Owen...
Tremont--"Friendship", George M. Cohan's latest...
...maintaining friendly relations with the Government to which he is accredited in mind. It is this purpose and this purpose only that all the traditional ceremonial, and representation through entertainment and public appearance serve. A Foreign Service officer newly arrived at a post must first seek acquaintance and stimulate friendship among the people of the country in which he finds himself both in order to obtain information which will be useful to his own Government as a basis for future decisions, and likewise to lay the foundations for advice and friendly assistance when some interests of his Government are involved...
Tremont--"Friendship", George M. Cohan's latest; reviewed in this issue...
...North, a paradox, for he got his start in the South at Canton, where revolution burst last week. From Canton in the brief space of two years (1926-28) President Chiang conquered all China. His only hope of maintaining this conquest now lies in the friendship of Marshal Chang and other Northern leaders. Last week in Nanking no dainty was too good for the Northern marshal...