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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...huge sausage-shaped bag moving along at better than 50 knots. Should the sausage descend close enough, the whole Stadium would be darkened by its shadow, for two football fields laid end to end would not equal its 720 feet of length. Should it approach on a mission of destruction, it could open fire with a battery of artillery. And should a defending airplane squadron seek to rise over it and destroy it with bombs, the dirigible would send out five full-sized planes, carried underneath the bag and launched from built-in runways. Having left the Stadium, the ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Biggest Dirigible | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

Campbell Stephen, M. P. (Laborite) : "Do you say that the British Mission at Moscow employed no spies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: International Repercussions | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

Christian Scientists. To Boston went 6,000 Christian Scientists from all parts of the world to attend the annual meeting of the "Mother Church." They heard Retiring President Charles E. Heitman declare that their church was "fulfilling its mission as a healing church"; elected him business manager of the Christian Science Publishing Society; elected Mrs. Ella W. Hoag of Bropkline, Mass., new president of their group. She is a disciple of Mary Baker Patterson Glover Eddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Meetings | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

Missionaries. It was considered most appropriate that Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, a potent missionary, should make his first formal speech as new Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church before his Foreign Mission Board, which held its 30th annual conference in Manhattan. Said he: "All over the world today we see the breaking down of all other religions. And now it is going to be the Christian religion or no religion whatever. It is a clear issue between Christianity and agnosticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Meetings | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...Missions. There was long debate as to whether or not U. S. Baptists should continue mission work outside the U. S. Young women dressed like the natives they had worked and prayed for in China, Japan, Burma, India, Africa, etc., moved among mission exhibits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Baptists | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

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