Word: mission
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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State he had indeed approved a $90 million credit to Poland, at a time when his law firm was serving as counsel to a Polish supply mission...
Tenacious William C. Bullitt, Franklin Roosevelt's onetime ambassador to Moscow and Paris, had been sent to China by a congressional committee to check on U.S. aid to China. He applauded ECA's China mission, headed by San Francisco's ex-Mayor Roger Lapham, "for the excellent work it has done." But Bullitt was firmly convinced that U.S. economic and military aid would delay, but not prevent further Communist advances...
Whatever happens, missionary boards will give missionaries every encouragement to stick it out-even if they should be forbidden to preach from their pulpits or teach in their schools. Said Dr. Frank T. Cartwright, China secretary of the Methodist Church's Division of Foreign Missions: "Some of the conservative boards may feel that doing mission work under the Communists is compromising with the Devil, but most of the larger boards feel that if we are allowed to teach Christianity, or even live a life of Christian witness alongside Communism, we would do it. We believe Christianity can stand...
...reduced the once-famed Halle to only 23 players-and a concert hall blitzed into rubble. He combed the town for players, plucked his first trombonist (a woman) from a Salvation Army band. He rehearsed his neophytes twelve hours a day; the first concert (in the local Methodist mission) was a success. That year he gave 230 concerts; the next he endeared himself to the British with a battlefront tour at Christmas, playing while the Battle of the Bulge was raging a few miles away...
...frequently does. But last week Journalist McCormick, in addition to writing her column three times a week, was clambering up & down the mountains of Greece, and doing a workmanlike job of reporting the guerrilla war. Guided by Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet, head of the U.S. Military Mission, she journeyed to mountain outposts and inspected refugee and prison camps to get her story...