Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will sail for two months in Europe, visiting Italy, France, Germany and Britain. In August he will go to Scotland to shoot some grouse. The fact that he will meet Europeans en route and discuss current diplomatic questions with them exalted his trip in press speculation almost to a mission...
...Curtius thoroughly bungled the Austro-German attempt to form a customs union (TIME, March 30 et seq.). Dr. Curtius has yet to win a major diplomatic victory. He is a family man, devoted to his small children. Whenever he returns to Berlin from an official mission the crust of his formal reception at the railway station is punctured by their loud whoops. Studious and a hard, clear thinker, Husband Curtius has much that a Foreign Minister should have-has no genius...
...takes his work seriously, served no liquor in his home while he was in the service of his Government. Under him as president is Daniel W. MacCormack who organized and directed Irving Trust's big receivership department, for five years was a member of the U. S. mission charged with straightening out Persian finances...
That Sun has quit Chiang and gone to Chen is ominous. China is in slow ferment, with Russia helping the brew. So slow is the ferment that last week the American Congregational Mission got tired of waiting for a stable Chinese Government to emerge, ended a work of 50 years, withdrew all their missionaries from the province of Fukien. excepting Foochow, abandoned much property bought with U. S. dollars, abandoned their hospital at Shaowu...
When he had about completed his program at Bloomington, there came to visit him an elderly Californian, Senator Leland Stanford, and his wife, Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford. Once Governor of California, Senator Stanford was a rich, celebrated horse breeder. To Dr. Jordan he explained his mission: his only son, Leland Stanford Jr. had died of Roman fever in 1884, aged 16, in Florence, Italy. To perpetuate his memory Senator & Mrs. Stanford had founded a university "free from traditions and precedents, one that will fit men and women for lives of service." The great Stanford horse farm in the wooded hills...