Word: mission
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another occasion, Reparations Commissioner Ed Pauley described him as "not only a good friend of mine but also the President's . . ." The letters got him a $5,600-a-year job with the State Department and free transportation to Greece with a U.S. mission at a time when he was also drawing $1,000 a month from Albert Verley & Co., Chicago perfume importers...
Last week, engaged "in oceanographic research," they were moving unobtrusively as seals through Arctic waters north and west of the Soviet base at Murmansk. One evening, just after the Cochino and Tusk rendezvoused off Norway's North Cape, the mission came to a sudden end. An explosion, apparently caused by hydrogen from storage batteries, rumbled in the Cochino's vitals...
...stands for." In her external relations, Adenauer sees Germany as the eastern bulwark of a free Europe; to fit her into her place he favors a competitive economy based on the principles of "free private initiative and profit-sharing for the worker." He speaks fervently of the mission of Christian democracy, not for Germany alone but for all Europe...
...Episcopal minister said, "15 minutes of unabashed tearjerking." Maggie, the daughter of an itinerant beanpicker, was rescued from social ostracism by the beautiful Baptist mission worker, Miss Lacey, whose well-modulated voice converted Maggie from a self-pitying brat to a self-sacrificing angel. As the program ended, the listeners began hurling comment and criticism at the head of Chicago Theological Seminary's Professor Ross Snyder, moderator of the session and co-chairman of Chicago's Religious Radio Workshop...
...last week Producer Cecil B. DeMille's special emissary, Actor Henry Wilcoxon, had left Hollywood to turn on the downpour in 25 major cities. With him was Pressagent Richard Condon, who planned the campaign, and luggage containing 400 pounds of promotion material and special gadgets. Wilcoxon's mission: to pour it on for six groups of "public opinion leaders" in each city-women's clubs, churches and religious groups, school officials, fashion designers, manufacturers and retailers, the press, radio and TV and film exhibitors...