Word: persia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...November 15th Dr. Dodd, a Presbyterian missionary from Persia, spoke to about 100 men on "Medicine in Persia." On December 6th a joint meeting of the Dental and Medical School Societies heard Dr. J. H. Vaughn of the Methodist Board speak on "Medicine in China." On March 31st Dr. Richard C. Cabot spoke to a large audience of students on "The Ethics of Medicine," and on April 6th Dr. George E. Vincent of the Rockefeller Foundation will speak on "Modern Medicine in China...
...United States he returned to Japan and there became a professor in Wasada University and in the Higher Commercial Colleges of Tokio. In 1895 he was appointed secretary for the Department of Foreign Affairs, and in 1898 he became a commissioner of the Formesan government to India, Persia, Turkey, and China...
...commercial relations with the present Russia. The question with the United States is wholly economic, which is unlike England's case, if we are to believe the report that Great Britain enters into a trade agreement in return for promises to check the spread of Bolshevist doctrines into Persia and India. The United States cannot mix economic and political aspects in this way. If was are to recognize the Soviet principle--and concluding trade agreements must lead to recognition--we do so from a standpoint of dollars and cents...
...Xerxes of Persia who caused a throne to be built for himself on the crest of the mountain overlooking Salamis so that he might enjoy the pageant of his conquest;--but it was a Grecian galley that carried the palm of victory back to the "wooden walls" of the Poloponnesus...
...month or more ago Mr. Truxton Beale, formerly minister to Persia, offered $10,000 in cash prizes to young Republicans who could furnish the best platform suggestions for the coming campaign. Naturally the opposition press, under the leadership of the New York World, ridiculed a party so bereft of principles that it had to call on the college boys of the country to supply the deficiency, and the ridicule undoubtedly offset any benefits which might have been derived from the contest...