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...highest honors the Chinese Government may bestow on a foreigner came last week to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Jr., national chairman of the United Council for Civilian Relief in China. Presentation: the Grand Cordon Bleu of the Order of Jade, at the hands of Ambassador Hu Shih in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Here is the last 100% correct blast from Hu Flung Huey Jr. He wanted to pick four southern teams but the Midwest was his first love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUEY SENDS XMAS GREETINGS AND NEW YEAR BOWL SCORES | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

Prominent guests who will be invited include: Hu Shih, ambassador from China to the United States; Hans Kohn, professor of History at Smith; Professor Frederick L. Schuman from Williams; Max Lerner; and Clarence K. Streit. The club hopes to get also the attendance of a number of foreign diplomats from Washington and a selected group of the University's faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreign Relations Club Reveals Plans For Peace Conference Here Next Spring | 12/8/1939 | See Source »

...love, family life, singsong girls, bandits, war lords, scholars, intrigue. This bootleg literature, called hsiaoshuo, or "a little talk," is still read by millions of Chinese. Three Kingdoms (San Kuo), written in the 13th Century, is still the great source book of guerrilla tactics; All Men Are Brothers* (Shui Hu Chuan) is hailed by Reds as China's first Communist literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Little Talk | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Indian summery evening last week 1,000 people gathered in Manhattan to praise "America's greatest philosopher." It was John Dewey's 80th birthday, and many distinguished men and women-among them Chinese Ambassador Hu Shih, Charles Beard, Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Fiorello LaGuardia-had come to his party. Nine organizations, including the Progressive Education Association and American Philosophical Association, had arranged to honor him. Honor him they did, with oratory and applause. But Dr. Dewey heard them not. He was not in Manhattan, not in Chicago, not in any of a dozen other places where Dewey birthday meetings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dewey at 80 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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