Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The sorry appearance of Nanking Theological Seminary astounds the U. S. visitor who has given his mite to Chinese missions. The Seminary consists of five squat buildings on a drab 20-acre campus. Only furnishings are the scant necessities of Chinese existence. But the 46 students (all natives) embellish their...
Last week Nanking Theological Seminary was as excited as it had not been since the city was bombarded in 1927 and President Harry F. Rowe was forced to flee in trousers and shirt. According to press despatches, Nanking Seminary was to receive not merely wealth, but riches incredible. The news...
In an ugly brick house on Fifth Avenue and 39th Street, Manhattan, Miss Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel had died (TIME, March 30 et ante) and dropped into the lap of Charity what the serious Press insisted upon calling a $75,000,000 to $100,000,000 fortune. Of that...
Left. By Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel (see p. 26), an estate estimated at more than $100,000,000, to be divided into 200 equal shares (of $500,000 upward) as follows: Flower Hospital, Manhattan, 35 shares; Drew Theological Seminary, 35 shares; St. Christopher's Home for Children, Dobbs Ferry...
In Nanking loud Mrs. Chang Hsueh-liang was hospitably entertained by two of the famed "Soong Sisters," arbiters of Chinese society: Mrs. Chiang Kaishek, softspoken, Wellesley-educated wife of the president, and Mrs. H. H. Kung whose husband is the excessively aristocratic 75th descendant of Confucius.