Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...negotiations between the Greek debt-funding mission and the U. S. commission last week came to a halt while the Greeks cabled Athens for instructions. Their opening gambit had been declined and they wanted to know what move to make next. They offered to fund the Greek debt (a principal of $15,500,000) if the U. S. would lend them $32,500,000 additional- the remainder of a credit which was originally extended. The U. S. commission politely but firmly represented the impossibility of loaning Greece any more money even to get the original debt funded. Hence the delay...
...such, in a paid newspaper advertisement as blatant as any circus poster, last week spoke one Thomas J. Noonan, superintendent of the Rescue Society, holding a nightly mission in the Old Chinese Theatre on Doyers St., located amidst their haunts. "Evangelistic, enthusiastic, extraordinary," ballyhooed the ad with circus alliteration. "Drunkards, drug addicts, the homeless and friendless especially invited...
Jugoslavia. The Jugoslavian Debt Mission, under Dr. Milan Stoyadinovich, and including MM. Djuritch, Radosavlievitch, Avramovitch, Svegel, Stamjec, arrived in Washington and announced their readiness to begin funding negotiations on their country's debt of $64,0000,000, which King Alexander in Belgrade last week described as "a debt of honor...
Greece. The Greek Debt Mission credit to the extent of $15,500,000. The Greek mission asked last week to borrow the other $32,500,000 of the credit before making a funding agreement. The American Commission, startled, prepared a formal explanation setting forth how hard it would be to get Congress to accept such a proposal...
...Griffiths family, the father preaches on the streets, the mother slaves at a mission, the daughter is seduced by a flashy actor, the son hops bells in the big hotel. This son, Clyde, is our hero...