Word: mission
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said that the business of the clergy was to deal with sin, righteousness, and judgment--questions of right and wrong instead of with controversial questions on which honest men might differ. The mission of the ministry should be to point the way to things of eternal and imperishable value...
...Harvard Mission, for example, has entirely recovered from its war-time confusion, with the result that it is now one of the most successful branches of the organization. Besides maintaining a representative at Robert College, Constantinople, this department has been active in the work of the Near East Relief and Dr. Grenfell's Mission in Labrador - indeed a cosmopolitan record...
...Morgenthau was appointed in 1913 to represent the United States at Constantinople, and from 1914 to 1916 was in charge of the interests in Turkey of Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Serbia, Switzerland and Montenegro. In 1919 he served as a member of the mission, appointed by President Wilson in June of that year, for investigating conditions in Poland. Mr. Morgenthau was an incorporator of the American National Red Cross, is Vice-Chairman of the Near East Relief Commission and a director of the Institute of International Education. His book, "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story", which first appeared in installments...
...official home is overrun with diplomats and envoys from all parts of the world. In this connection one event will arouse great interest--the intended visit to this country by Rene Viviani, former Prime Minister of France. Previous press reports from Paris intimated that M. Viviani's mission would be an attempt to obtain the cancellation of the French debt to the United States. The news was denied by the French government; in fact M. Jusserand expressed in no uncertain terms his indignation at these false reports. According to the authorities at Paris, the French ex-minister's mission will...
...Engineering School, has been awarded for the current year to Vsevolod Nicolas Krivobok, a Russian. Krivobok was graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Petrograd in 1915, and in 1916 came to this country, where he was engaged during the war in research in special steels for the Russian Railway Mission. After the end of the war he came to the Engineering School as a graduate student in metal-lurgy...