Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irishman answering to this description is expected to arrive at Manhattan on January 18th, in the premiere suite of the S. S. Homeric. He is William Thomas Cosgrave, President of the Irish Free State. "I cross the Atlantic," he said last week, "on a simple, non-political mission of thanks to the American people.... For many years, during our struggle for Irish independence, we received more than $15,000,000 from America every Christmas . . . . It is due in no small measure to America that our long drawn out struggle ... was brought to a successful issue .-. . . Besides thanking the American people...
...Here's the record of one boy I've just employed," this man continued. "At the end of his freshman year he went for one month to a citizens' military camp: after sophomore year he worked for six weeks with Dr. Grenfell's mission in Labrador; at the close of junior year he had a month and a half with the Banks fishing fleet and after graduation he spent July and August with a forestry outfit. All of it was open air work, putting him in good physical condition and in touch with all sorts and conditions...
Viscount Shimpei Goto, onetime Mayor of Tokyo, arrived diffidently at Moscow. Cornered by correspondents, he protested: "I came here on no political, economic or indeed any specific mission." Pumped by a U. S. correspondent, he said...
...readers last Rosh Hashonah (TIME, Oct. 3). Last week came the decision-the late Oscar Solomon Straus (1850-1926), diplomat. He was the friend and aid of four U. S. Presidents. For Grover Cleveland he went to Turkey as U. S. Minister; at Constantinople he protected the U. S. mission schools & colleges. For William McKinley he again went to Turkey as Minister. William Howard Taft sent him there a third time, as Ambassador. Meanwhile he had served as Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce & Labor. President Roosevelt appointed him a U. S. member to the Permanent Court of Arbitration...
...Mission" section of San Francisco-so-called from the Dolores Mission which once stood there-corresponds to that section of many another U. S. city where stands the ghosts of a bygone gentility, old houses built for large, well-to-do families which have long since scattered or died out. Cf. Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, the "West Side" in Manhattan, Boston's "Back Bay" (still showing signs of life), Chicago's original "South Side" (almost erased...