Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Born in Colorado, he went to Lafayette College (1918), spent seven months in naval aviation, went to Haryard, Pennsylvania, Princeton Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1922. worked for the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, missionized in Persia, became dean of the American College in Teheran. This he built from a small high school to an institution of some 800 students. Last year he returned to the U.S. with his wife who had contracted an Asiatic malady. W. & J.'s trustees saw their chance, got Dr. Hutchison to take the presidency...
Through Damascus, Baghdad, Teheran, Kabul, 3.445 miles across Mesopotamia, Persia, Afghanistan and northern India to Srinagar, Kashmir, the caravan plodded, while news of its progress was wirelessed to Beirut and thence to Europe and America. Now came the hardest part of the trip, for barring the way into Eastern Turkestan stretched the vast Karakoram Range of the Himalayas. North of Srinagar loomed massive mountains with scarcely a trail across them. Leader Haardt left five of his cars in Srinagar, started up the steep slopes of the Himalayas with the lightest two. Steadily they climbed, up 35° inclines, along narrow...
Emissaries from His Majesty (who 16 years ago was a private soldier) were in Paris last week. In their entourage was a group of French and Dutch jewel experts who have just examined, catalogued, appraised the Persian Crown Jewels at Teheran...
Dean R. C. Hutchison of the American College at Teheran, Persia...
...State Department did not know. Geographers believed that his itinerary lay to Constantinople, then across the Black Sea to Batum in Georgia, whence he would go by train across the Transcaucasian S. F. S. R. to Baku. There he would ship down the Caspian to Barfrush, going overland to Teheran. Had he traveled through countries officially recognized by the U. S., his route would have taken him to Damascus, with a flight to Bagdad or perhaps by water around Arabia and up to the head of the Persian Gulf...