Word: mission
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Several months ago graft charges were preferred in a local court against the "Red Prince," but he brazenly announced, "I am called away from Georgia on an imperative official mission." Before he was caught he had squandered 128,000 rubles on the grandest Bolshevik spree on record...
...Dear Herr von Papen to aid ... in [bringing] back to normal and friendly paths our long unfortunate relations to the German Austrian State. ... I have, therefore, . . . proposed to the Reichspräzident [von Hindenburg] that you should be called temporarily to the post of Minister to Vienna as a special mission at the same time leaving the Reich Cabinet. Once again I thank...
...what is now New York State, amusing themselves along the way by ripping out his fingernails, chopping off his thumbs, plucking out his hairs, heaping live coals on his body. Escaping after 14 months he went back to the scene of his captivity three years later to establish a mission. As he entered a cabin an Iroquois tomahawk cleaved his skull, starting him on the road to sainthood...
Some of the warriors who in grudging admiration drank Father Brébeuf's blood and ate his heart lived to enter the Jesuit mission at Caughnawaga as Christian converts. But four more Jesuits and two lay companions died martyrs' deaths before the Iroquois began to relent. And never until scholarly, unassuming Michael Jacobs, born Wishe Karhaienton, was ordained, had a full-blooded Mohawk Iroquois donned the black robe which made him a spiritual brother of Isaac Jogues and Jean de Breb?...
...Germany from which the Nazis had practically expelled him. In mid-June he wrote thus of Adolf Hitler, a personal acquaintance : "It has seemed to me at times that there is a kinship between him and Ignatius Loyola. One finds in both men the same complete faith in their mission, the same readiness and determination to exercise their power with utter ruthlessness and brutality in order to carry out that mission. No consideration of personal profit or glory ever entered Loyola's mind, and I believe the same can be said of Hitler." Such an expression was bound to anger...