Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back from a naval mission to Brazil came Rear Admiral Newton Alexander McCully, U. S. N. Reporters were not surprised to find him accompanied by six children, none of whose faces bore the slightest resemblance to the face of Admiral McCully...
Reporters, recognizing in these children six of the seven Russian orphans whom Admiral McCully adopted in 1920 when on a naval mission to Russia, asked how his private orphanage was getting along...
...weeks ago, at the ceremonious opening of a $120,000 mission hospital at St. Anthony, on the uppermost tip of Newfoundland, Sir William Allardyce, Governor of Newfoundland and Laborador, acting on instructions from his King, smote Dr. Wilfred Thomason Grenfell on the right shoulder with a sword and bade "the Knight Errant of the North" arise a Knight of the Order of St. Michael and St. George...
...paper. There is an undated letter now in the possession of the Department of the Interior, bearing Mr. Barnett's thumb print, which proposed to donate $1,000,000 for a hospital in Henryetta, Okla. Also, Mr. Barnett's benevolent thumb gave $550,000 to the American Baptist Home Mission Society for the benefit of poor Indians...
...Assistant Equerry of the Apostolic Palaces was at Milan, Italy, last week on an especial mission to buy a third motor car for His Holiness Pope Pius XI. The smaller of the two motor cars which the people of Milan gave Achille Ratti when in 1922 he was called from being their archbishop to become the Supreme Pontiff has worn out. The Pope has used it effectively in his drives about the Vatican grounds...