Word: mission
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taft was elected, he was appointed Minister to Japan. He never got there. Secretary Knox accused him of " indiscretions " in interviews with the press, and Mr. Taft requested his resignation before he sailed. In 1912 Mr. Crane campaigned vigorously for Woodrow Wilson. After that he served on the Root mission to Russia, and on missions to the Near East. In 1920 he was made Minister to China, and served until President Harding took office. He still maintains an interest in the Near East. His latest plan is to send American professors to Turkey to reorganize the Turkish school system...
...used to send out new missionaries, and to raise the small salaries of those already in the foreign field. This appeal has been coldly received by the rector's fellow churchmen. A specific cathedral is more impressive to the mind's eye than an indefinite mission field...
...loss of life in this zone was enormous and at one place we counted about a score of bodies blocking the river. Catholic mission station was demolished and the French priest, Alric, and 18 scholars and 30 members killed...
Heresy Hunters, Dr. John Roach Straton and 30 other members of the Fundamentalist League of New York and vicinity descended upon the Baptist headquarters at 30th Street and Fifth Avenue, New York, marched to the room of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, demanded to see the files of that office. The Board of Managers of the Mission Society (liberal to the core) held a stormy four-hour session with their Fundamentalist brethren (conservatives absolutely), and finally refused to open their files. The Board of Managers found that there were no specific, written charges against Baptist missionaries in the foreign...
Palestine. The University of Pennsylvania mission at Beisan (the Old Testament Bethshean), 55 miles northeast of Jerusalem, has unearthed substantial Egyptian buildings and inscriptions of Seti I and Rameses II (19th dynasty, about 1366 B. C.), suggesting military occupation of Palestine at that time...