Word: schurman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...event of the day occurred in the Reichstag, where a Monarchist coalition supports its Cabinet. The interior of the Chamber was decorated with flowers by Monarchist Minister of Interior Schiele. President von Hindenburg was ensconced in a chair in the Diplomatic Gallery. To one side was Jacob Gould Schurman, U. S. Ambassador. On the floor of the Chamber were perfumed ladies, masses of Monarchists, some Republicans, no Communists...
...Jacob G. Schurman Cornell...
...Hughes, age 35, was graduated from Brown University in 1909, Harvard Law School in 1912. He has been associated with the law firm of Byrne and Cutcheon; then Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft; and since 1917, he has been a member of the firm ot Hughes (Sr. and Jr.), Rounds, Schurman (brother of the now U. S. Ambassador to Berlin) and Dwight. All these firms are in Manhattan...
...Jacob Gould Schurman, onetime (1892-1920) President of Cornell, onetime (1921-25) Minister to China, taking ship for his new post in the Embassy at Berlin...
...other delicate matters better than Mr. MacMurray. Since graduation from Princeton, he has filled diplomatic posts in Siam, Russia, China, Japan. In 1919, he became Chief of the Far Eastern Division of the State Department, last year was elevated to an assistant Secretaryship of State. As soon as Minister Schurman accepted the Berlin post, Mr. MacMurray was put forward as the ideal candidate for Peking. Would politics interfere? Could Senator Curtis persuade the President to appoint his fellow-Kan- san, William S. Culbertson? Could some other Senator win the post for some one else? In a word...