Word: mission
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yellow-garmented Buddhist priests chanted prayers, thumbed beads, whirred carven prayer wheels. They and all Siam, especially Royal Bangkok, mourned the death of a young medical interne at the American Mission Hospital. No ordinary student he, but a superlatively intelligent one, for he came from a superlatively intelligent house and was none other than Somdet Chao Fa (Prince) Mahidol Adulyadej, brother of His Majesty the King of Siam, heir presumptive to the throne of Siam, Harvard graduate, onetime M. I. T. student...
Geneva. Sessions of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Com mission in Geneva last week were enlivened and made acrimonious by Great Britain's famed Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, tire less apostle of Disarmament, winner of the 1924 Woodrow Wilson Peace Award (TIME...
...James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, Minister in Charge of Unemployment, returned to England last week aboard the Canadian Pacific Duchess of Atholl from his four-week visit to Canada. His mission, to alleviate British unemployment by selling British goods, chiefly coal, to loyal Canadians, had been slightly impaired by reports of a big new coal field right in Canada (TIME, Sept. 23). Nevertheless "Jim" Thomas was pleased with himself and as the Duchess of Atholl docked he said to the press: "I feel sure that the sequel will be that Canada will buy from us a large amount...
...Speakers' Committee, in charge of Chairman T. H. Culhane '30, furnishes Harvard students as entertainers in answer to requests from schools, churches, settlement houses, men's clubs, and Christian Associations. The Mission Committee, with P. M. Sheldon, ocC, as Chairman, corresponds with Harvard graduates who are teaching or doing missionary work abroad...
Professor Garrod at present is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and also is a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. In 1917 he visited the United States as a member of the Special Labour Mission, and in the following year held the portfolio of the Assistant Secretary of the Ministry of Reconstruction in England...