Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English Mission of St. Augustine; its Relation to the Culture of Early England," Dr. Magoun, Sever 5, Comparative Literature...
Buchmanism. Educators recognized at once that the Waterbury Student Mission was a manifestation of a sect that has rooted itself spasmodically in U. S. colleges -Buchmanism. Mr. Frank N. D. Buchman was not at Waterbury, but was represented by Samuel Shoemaker, zealous disciple. Mr. Buchman is smooth, with a long intelligent nose, a hungry eye. He is to be seen from time to time traveling first class on the principal transatlantic liners. When at New Haven, or Princeton, or Cambridge, Mass., or Cambridge, Eng., he is persona grata among a group of serious-minded young men distinguished by their piety...
William Rosenwald, son of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Chairman Julius Rosenwald: "Interviewed by newsgatherers last week I said: 'I deeply regret the false impression given to the press by a statement which I made (TIME, Oct. 11) concerning the Sherwood Eddy mission to Russia of which I was a member. I did not say that the Eddy mission was "filled full of bunk." I meant to say that it was almost impossible to get into the real heart of the Russian people. I fully agreed with and signed the letter sent to President Coolidge (recommending U. S. recognition of Russia...
...Sherwood Eddy's mission to Russia of which I was a member was filled full of bunk!" Eager newsgatherers scribbled this statement as it fell from the lips of one William Rosenwald, son of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Chairman Julius Rosenwald...
Sherwood Eddy himself, the tempestuous Asiatic Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. and ten members of his mission had signed and posted a letter to President Coolidge requesting the immediate recognition by the U.S. of the U. S. S. R. (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics). Previously President William Francis of the Chicago Y.M.C.A.-no Communist-had demanded the resignation of Mr. Eddy from the Y.M.C.A. At Moscow, fearless Sherwood Eddy had debated the existence of God before a great gathering of Atheists. A Chicago Tribune correspondent, shocked, cabled lurid rumors of Mr. Eddy's Communist leanings. Last week Sherwood Eddy refuted...