Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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California. Some 251,000 San Franciscans registered to elect a mayor. They had had but one mayor since 1912-crisp, greying Mayor James ( Plain Jim of the Mission") Rolph Jr. To oppose Mayor Rolph's reelection there had now stepped forward James E. Power, tEe power behind whom was Sheriff Tom Finn, old-time politician. Mayor Rolph endorsed William J. Fitzgerald to oust "Boss'' Finn as Sheriff, saying: "Bossism must be thrust down!" San Franciscans reflected that "Plain Jim Rolph of the Mission"†† was the man who had brought the Panama-Pacific International Exposition...
...first post-war Ambassador was Dr. Otto Wiedfeldt, who incurred some sharp criticism when he refused to lower the German flag to half mast on the occasion of ex-President Woodrow Wilson's death. The second was Baron von Maltzan, who, although starting his diplomatic mission under the cloud of his predecessor, finally had achieved conspicuous success and popularity at the time of his death?an event which occasioned nationwide sympathy and sorrow...
...upon him last April by President Gerardo Machado of Cuba by attending the opening session of the sixth international conference of American states in Havana. Should he do so, it-would be only the second time that a U. S. President had left U. S. soil on a diplomatic mission...
...Paris trip was the first of its kind. Taft visited Panama in 1910, but stayed in territory under U. S. jurisdiction, except for a brief stop-over at Cuba on the home trip. Harding, returning from his Alaskan tour, visited Vancouver, B. C., not, however, on a diplomatic mission...
...breath every 24 hours. The destination of the plane was Rome, 4,100 miles away (115 miles beyond Clarence Chamberlin's endurance record into Germany.) The Pope in his Vatican nodded, pleased, when the wires told how Father Mullen, Old Orchard priest, had blessed the plane and tits mission just before the takeoff...