Word: mission
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Malcolm J. Rowe '42 and Joseph S. Stern '40 will represent Harvard in Labrador this summer as Grenfell Mission Workers it was announced recently by Thomas H. E. Quimby '40 of the Phillips Brooks House Grenfell Mission Committee...
According to Quimby who made the trip last year with James H. Gilbert '40, the duties of the two this summer will consist mainly of "outdoor labor," designed both to benefit the boys and to do service to the mission...
...medieval vengeance wreaked with modern weapons, news of German book-burnings, of anti-Semitic outbreaks, of a bloody purge, news of statesmen who seemed only masters of vituperation and violence. What could be expected from a country whose leaders believed, in Propaganda Minister Goebbels' words, that their mission was "to unchain volcanic passions, to cause outbreaks of fury, to set masses of men on the march, to organize hate and suspicion with ice-cold calculation...
Last week, Attorney General Frank Murphy, accompanied by Chief J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI, suddenly appeared in Kansas City, Mo. This was but one stop for them, they said, on a whirlwind, 48-hour "inspection trip" to five big Midwest cities. Mr. Murphy explained that his mission was to tell his U. S. District Attorneys to snap into their work, clean up their dockets, above all not to cringe and flinch before any political overlords...
Early in the week a Frenchman named Hubert Lagardelle, who lives in Rome and hobnobs with Signor Mussolini, went to Paris supposedly charged with a secret mission. Before long everyone knew the secret. He called on a Daladier lieutenant, Public Works Minister Anatole de Monzie, and suggested that he tell his boss the time was ripe for Paris to woo Rome. Next day King Vittorio Emmanuele read his mild-as-milk speech before the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. Day after that France's Ambassador in Rome, Andre François-Poncet, called on Crown Prince Humbert...