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...Harlow again," said Hu Flung Huey ocC. "I am afraid the Cloud-busters have Moran the ball than we have. They must Seymour from there than Moister people can from the third Storey. They look like a Boyd up there. I hope they can Hadley get down. Last week I hurt my Hibbard it's all right...
...China's very practical Foreign Minister T. V. Soong has also been stationed in Washington. Between them, they might have seemed to be diplomatically irresistible. If China was not getting its due, the fault might lie with the U.S. rather than with the Chinese Embassy. Dr. Hu's friends hoped that one persistent Washington rumor was true: that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had a big job for Dr. Hu in China...
...Hu Shih once said that philosophy was his profession, literature his entertainment, politics his obligation. It was an understatement. As a philosopher Hu Shih is one of the outstanding disciples of the ramified pragmatist, John Dewey. Born in Shanghai, the son of a geographer, Hu Shih was an intellectual prodigy as a child. As a teacher of English during the dark period before the Chinese Revolution, he grew increasingly morbid and dissipated, was once jailed for brawling with a policeman. He came out of this phase to win a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to Cornell (where he was called "Doc"), went...
Literature has meant much more than entertainment to Dr. Hu. He is himself a milestone in Chinese letters. He led the astonishing movement which in a few years gave China a written language corresponding to its spoken tongue, thus smashing the antique literary monopoly of the mandarins and giving reading and writing to the people. In 1930 he became dean of Peking's School of Literature, leaving there to become Ambassador...
...previous U.S. student conference has been treated to so many big-name speakers. Besides the President (who promised them post-war peace & plenty, on a national hookup), the students heard Mrs. Roosevelt ("lecturer and writer"), Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, WPB's Bill Batt, retiring Chinese Ambassador Dr. Hu Shih. In the Department of Labor's magnificent auditorium, delegates applauded speech after speech of unimpeachable commencement prose, rallying them to a United Nations victory and a just People's Peace. What they missed was a specific program...