Word: schurman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Government is obviously uncertain as to what is happening in the Celestial Republic, and has therefore despatched the General to find out. Leaving Manilla at an early date, he is expected to proceed to Peking where Minister Schurman will assist him in diagnosing the ills of China...
Married. Jacob Gould Schurman, Jr., a son of the American Minister to China and former President of Cornell, to Mary Allerton Cushman, in Manhattan...
...American Minister to the Chinese Republic, Mr. Jacob Gould Schurman, formerly President of Cornell, delivered a smarting attack on the instability of the Government at a Washington's Birthday dinner held in Peking...
When civil government was introduced, many prominent Americans interested themselves in the Islands. Among the earliest were Dr. Schurman of Cornell, and Chief-Justice Taft, who become the first governor-general. Among the most recent have been W. Cameron Forbes and Major-General Wood, both governors-general. Under the leadership of these men the Islands have prospered, initial steps have been made in sanitation, in manufacturing, shipping, and in foreign trade, and the agricultural and mineral resources of the country have been put to profitable use. These men, too, are as well acquainted with conditions in the Islands...
...other two objections, namely: that the league provides for no court of compulsory arbitration, and that it does not recognize the validity of the Monroe doctrine to a great enough extent, are easily discernible to any clear-minded person who is not befogged with partizanship as Dr. Schurman seems...