Word: mission
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Islands. While Bingham Sr. pushed deep into the tropic wilderness to translate the Bible into heathen dialects, his son remained in Hawaiian schools. He was sent to the U. S. at 18, was graduated from Yale in 1898, returned to Hawaii to serve briefly as superintendent of Palama Chapel Mission, as chemist at Molokai for American Sugar Co. A year later he returned to the U. S., studied at the University of California, at Harvard. Equipped with a Harvard Ph. D. he taught history and politics for a year at Princeton...
...There is no doubt whatever," wrote the expert, coldly, judicially, "that Mexico's breaking off of relations [with the Soviet Government (TiME, Feb. 3)] was dictated by the State Department in Washington. Mexico, which in 1924 proved its independence by sending a diplomatic mission [to Moscow] now demonstrates its submission to the United States foreign policy. Of all the American republics Mexico alone had relations with us. The United States regards the entire American continent as their colony. Therefore it may be supposed that Washington, by giving orders to the Mexican Government concerning their Russian policy, wished to obliterate this...
...Petersburg in 1895, the son of an English cotton-spinning manufacturer settled there. He was educated in St. Petersburg schools and at Worcester College, Oxford; served in the World War in the 5th Reserve Cavalry, with the Military Attache of the British Embassy at Petrograd, with the British Military Mission to Siberia. He was decorated with the Czechoslovak Croix de Guerre, the Rus-sian Order of St. Stanislav. Though he was a friend of Katherine Mansfield and corresponded with her for years, he never met her. Other books: Futility, Anton Chekhov, The Polyglots, A Bad End, Eva's Apples...
Year ago when that gruff old Bulgarian elder statesman Nicholas Muchanoff set out on a secret mission to Rome (TIME, Feb. 4, 1929), the Italian and Greek ministers plenipotentiary at Sofia laid...
...Cyprian. . . ." Newman's reception was chilly, to say the least; the Pope sent him congratulations on recovering from a wretched heresy. For years he was looked upon with suspicion by his new superiors, his suggestions ignored, his plans thwarted. In 1848 he was put in charge of a mission in Birmingham...