Word: mission
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charges, the Philippines. The Collectivist Party dominates in its demands that the Archipelago be set adrift, be given complete independence. One phase of this demand has been serious friction between the insular legislature and Governor .General Wood. The independence faction in the islands sent a mission, consisting of Manuel Roxas, Speaker of the Insular House, to the U. S. last Fall (TIME, Nov. 19). Senor Roxas presented his case to the President, and last week received a plain-spoken answer in the form of a letter. Said the President...
...frankly convinced that the very mission upon which you have addressed me is itself an evidence that something is yet lacking in development of political consciousness and capability...
According to announcements made yesterday by the Harvard Mission Mr. L. S. Moore '10, Acting American Director of Near East Colleges, will be in Phillips Brooks House all this afternoon to confer with seniors or graduate students who might be interested in teaching positions in American Near East Colleges...
...Paralysis attacked Homer C. Stuntz, Methodist, in Florida. Missionary in India and the Philippines, mission board secretary, bishop in South America and in Omaha, he dealt sternly last year with J. M. D. Buckner, a liberal preacher...
...painting then pas.sed through noble families, to an attic, to Father Miguel de los Santos Colart. He removed the nun's robes painted by the Carmelites, and brought the picture to his Chinese Mission in Manhattan. There it was examined by experts, endorsed as a genuine Velasquez, held...