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The new building is John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s latest munificence to the University of Chicago. The Oriental Institute is its name and behind it lies an endowment of between twelve and 14 million dollars, the entire income of which is at Dr. Breasted's disposal to pursue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: East Gone West | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

Happy, beaming Dr. Breasted, congratulated on all sides as the party and speech-making got under way, beamed more brightly when the Rockefeller Foundation's Dr. Raymond Elaine Fosdick paid him this compliment: "If there had been no Breasted there would have been no Oriental Institute, and without an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: East Gone West | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

Dr. Breasted's Province. From the Persian Gulf up the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates, then along the coast of the Mediterranean to Jerusalem lies a great "fertile crescent," skirting the Arabian Desert. By continuing the western tip of this crescent into Egypt to the equally fertile Nile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: East Gone West | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

Nevertheless Crown Prince Azam Jah obeyed his father's orders to marry last week, and so did Prince Moazzam Jah. Proceeding to Nice, France, these drab brothers were caparisoned with Oriental pomp, garlanded with flowers, buckled with jeweled swords and conducted by a suitably gorgeous retinue to the villa of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Nizam's Azam and Moazzam | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

How much is the beauteous daughter of a deposed Caliph worth? How much for his cousin who is also the great granddaughter of the late Turkish ex-Sultan Murad V? Right up to the moment when the double marriage contract was signed in Caliph Abdul Medjid's villa last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Nizam's Azam and Moazzam | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

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