Word: mission
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boldly Belgium's would-be Dictator issued a statement last week for the first time clarifying his ideals and objectives. "Rexism is a sacred mission arising out of Belgium's traditional Catholicism!" he proclaimed. "I am more a brother of the Spanish Catholic than of the Belgian Communist. I sent Rexist troops to aid General Franco and I treasure his words thanking me for my part in saving Spain...
...will be bringers of peace to Europe. Our mission is to harmonize Germany and France. We are through with following France. I love that country, and it was only an accident that I was born in Belgium for my birthplace is two miles from the French frontier. My parents are French, so is my wife...
...decision of the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet to employ the annual four hundred dollar scholarship for the benefit of the Grenfell Mission abandons one excellent policy only to fulfill another. In past years the Chairman of the Foreign Student Committee has been given the money with the understanding that upon his return from his summer travels he will help the foreign students here in the University. That plan, in their own words, has been overwhelmingly successful for the individuals who received the scholarship. But the second aspect, in spite of honest effort, has failed for the simple reason that...
...four hundred dollars will now go to the Grenfell Mission to pay the summer expenses of three Harvard men, one embryo dentist or doctor, and two undergraduates. The Grenfell Post in Labrador is famous all over the world. Its forces have been bolstered up every summer by amateur volunteers who are willing to pay for the privilege of service that runs from the hard physical labor of unloading provisions to curing Eskimo diseases. Although the new plan is frankly an experiment, and if it fails, the disposition of the fund will go back into the hands of the Cabinet; still...
...convention came out flat-footedly against "spiritually destructive methods of raising money," such as church card parties and dances, by approving the American Missions Board's decision to withdraw support from 575 mission churches if they persist in so raising funds...