Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Masters exhibition at the San Francisco Exposition (TIME, March 6), it covered every major school of European art up to the French Revolution. It was remarkable also in that no less than 88 works were being shown publicly for the first time in the U. S. Lent by great foreign museums or private and inaccessible collections, these could not have been seen otherwise by nine-tenths of the visitors...
Greatest U. S. Protestant layman is Dr. John Raleigh Mott. For more than 50 years Dr. Mott, a serene-faced man of disciplined energy, has traveled the world for the Y. M. C. A. and the International Missionary Council. The I. M. C., coordinator of Protestant foreign missions, re-elected Dr. Mott its chairman at its meeting in Madras last winter. Dr. Mott, now 74, requested that his term be limited to three years. Last week he addressed the Foreign Missions Conference of North America at Swarthmore College...
Declaring that only 30% of U. S. and Canadian Protestants give money to foreign missions, Dr. Mott said that the whole missionary system is "overworked and undermanned." A 15% increase in staff, he declared, would bring a 100% increase in results. But if missionary zeal is dull at home, Dr. Mott thought that it was keen in the field. Said he: "If Christianity should die out in Europe and America, it exists in such vitality and propagating power in the younger churches of India, China, Japan and Africa, that sooner or later it would spread from those bases...
...post-War twilight, Speyer & Co. floated many a foreign loan, financed railroads, built a railroad in Bolivia, power plants in Manila. But Speyer's London firm was dissolved in 1922; in 1934 the Lazard-Speyer-Ellissen banks in Berlin and Frankfurt were dissolved. Latterly Speyer & Co. has fallen into the sere and yellow leaf...
...Withdraw immediately from all foreign relations entanglements...