Word: schurman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made necessary by the malconformation of Chinese law as compared with the beauty of Roman and Teutonic law, regarded by white men as their inalienable inheritance. Nationalistic China now resents the concession of extra-territorality, demands the abrogation of the treaties. The most important speech of U. S. Minister Schurman - recently promoted to be Ambassador at Berlin (TIME, Mar. 30)-was made two months ago on this subject. He tactfully suggested gradual changes...
...President, in the closing hours of the special session of the Senate, nominated James Garabaldi Sargent to be Attorney General, Peter Augustus Jay to be Ambassador to Argentina, Jacob Gould Schurman to be Ambassador to Germany, Ulysses Grant-Smith to be Minister to Uruguay, George L. Kreeck to be Minister to Paraguay, four additional members to the Board of Tax Appeals and Thomas F. Woodlock to the Interstate Commerce Commission. All except Mr. Woodlock were immediately confirmed...
...Jacob Gould Schurman, Minister to China, was transferred to be Ambassador to Berlin (post left vacant by Alanson B. Houghton, transferred to London...
...Jacob Gould Schurman is a cosmopolite. Of Dutch descent, his boyhood was spent at Freetown, Prince Edward Island. He studied at London, Paris, and Edinburgh, taking a B.A, M.A. and Sc.D. He then obtained a traveling scholarship which took him to Heidelberg, Berlin, Gottingen and finally to Italy and Switzerland. In 1880, he took a professorship in Acadia College, Nova Scotia. Four years later, he went to Cornell as professor, and was President there from 1892 to 1920. In 1892 he became a U. S. citizen. He served as U. S. Minister to Greece and Montenegro...
William H. Crocker of San Francisco (banker and Republican National Committeeman), Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman (ex-President of Cornell University, now Minister to China), James R. Sheffield (Ambassador to Mexico), Ogden H. Hammond (retired banker of New Jersey), Walter J. Damrosch* (famed orchestra conductor in Manhattan, son-in-law of the late James G. Elaine). Most of these were no more likely of choice than several score of others unnamed...