Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Davison Rockefeller Jr. To head the inquiry two years ago they chose, an engineer -President Albert Lyon Scott of Lockwood Greene Engineers Inc. (industrial specialists), a Brown graduate (1900), minister's son, onetime Baptist deacon and Bible class teacher. Year ago Engineer Scott went to the Orient with an Appraisal Commission headed by Harvard Professor of Philosophy William Ernest Hocking. The Commission roved about, returned last July. Last week Engineer Scott began making public the report of the inquiry, which will be submitted to mission boards of the seven churches this winter. Gist of the first four...
...Lytton Report (scheduled to appear this week), for at least another six weeks. Why? The Foreign Office refused to explain. To most Chinese and many an Occidental it seemed possible that Japan was asking the League to hold back the true text while she spread around the Orient a distorted version. Sailing from Shanghai last week, close-lipped Lord Lytton said of his Commission "Defunctns...
...acquired another strategic outpost-Alaskan Airways, comprising 2,500 mi. of lines. The future was too obscure to be read in detail but any observer could make plausible guesses merely on the strength of Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau's recent predictions of airplane service between Europe and the Orient via the Northern Passage, Canada, northern U. S., the Pacific Coast, the Kuriles (TIME, Aug. 8). Alaskan Airways was the property of potent Aviation Corp. (American Airways holding company) which holds a 12% interest in P. A. A. It was organized in 1929 by the late Carl Ben Eielson, father...
...airplane passage between New York and Europe he saw little immediate future; steamships are too fast. His hopes lie in developing a direct mail service from Europe through Canada and northern U. S. to the Pacific Coast and the Orient...
...reduction or cancellation of the debts. . . than by means of a conference. . . which would be permitted to deal with [1] Reparations and Debts; [2] Disarmament; [3] the re-establishment of the gold standard (31 nations being now off the gold standard) ; [4] the stabilization of silver in the Orient and [5] possibly other questions...