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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizen fall sick in the Balkans or in Turkey. Let him brood upon slimy gutters, promiscuously expectorating citizens, and the greasy scum which swims upon his especially ordered soup. Let him grow sicker. But finally and mercifully transport him to a clean bed and a cheerful room in the American Hospital at Constantinople. He will then realize the special and comforting importance of that institution. He will understand, why, last week, the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, Joseph Clark Grew, took care to conduct through the Hospital and its adjoining School for Nurses an august guest, his cousin, John Pierpont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Morgan Visit | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...scarcely continue functioning through the present twelvemonth if financial aid is not speedily forthcoming from the U. S. Director Dr. Shepard of the Hospital and School has economized and scrimped. The nurses now in training who go out upon graduation to spread U. S. medical methods in Turkey are now cooped up in such quarters that four or five must sleep in a small room. Financier Morgan was impressed by what he saw and heard, last week, but sometimes even great philanthropists are tardy about giving aid. Therefore generous and perspicacious U. S. citizens-some of modest means-sent cheques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Morgan Visit | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...said that President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, called the Ghazi-"The Victorious"-but now somewhat debilitated by incessant, nightly champagne tippling, would confer with Dr. Voronoff in the inconspicuous city of Adana, some 30 miles inland from the southern coast of Turkey. The chief question of vital interest was whether there would also be present one of the lively young chimpanzees which are bred especially for Dr. Voronoff's convenience in French West Africa by the Pasteur Institute. With thin sharp knives Surgeon Voronoff can slice from a chimpanzee glands which he then swiftly inserts in a human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Chimpanzee Present? | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...Conferred with Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey of Turkey concerning a new commercial treaty which is expected to provide the opening wedge for Italian commercial penetration in Asia Minor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Husband's Week | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

John Pierpont Morgan sailed into the Golden Horn near Stamboul, Turkey, on his yacht Corsair. His cousin, Joseph C. Grew, U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, had arranged to have the daughter of a onetime Governor of Jerusalem take Mr. Morgan on a Turkish sightseeing tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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