Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...term, 1885 to 1889, and as a fitting honor for him after Mr. Cleveland again became President he was made our first Ambassador to England. It is also in my mind in this connection that going abroad with my father in 1889 when the latter was on a diplomatic mission to Germany he called when passing through London at the American Legation in London to pay his respects to Mr. Lincoln, the American Minister...
...Senate the most entertaining proposal was a resolution by Coleman L. Blease, fire-eater, elected in South Carolina a year ago. His resolution would require the Treasury Department to investigate the use of liquors in foreign embassies and legations; he wants to know whether the Italian Debt Funding Mission had wines and beer, and if so, why no arrests were made. The Senator asseverated...
...upon Colonel Mitchell's lawyer, Congressman Frank R. Reid. Rath declared in cross examination that anti-aircraft fire was effective; that Colonel Mitchell (then General) had during the War ordered flights under extremely adverse conditions; once had sent five flyers not experienced in night flying out on a mission which brought them home after dark, so that all five crashed in landing and one was killed; on another occasion had sent out twelve bombers in such bad weather that neither French nor British sent up bombers, and only four of the twelve ever returned. Congressman Reid kept asking...
...Henry Bérenger to succeed Ambassador Nosky Georges Henri Emile Daeschner at Washington. Observers recalled that Senator Bérenger is Reporter General of the Budget to the Senate; that he came to the U. S. as second ranking member of M. Caillaux's ill fated debt mission (TIME, Oct. 5, Oct. 12) and that he is almost as widely known as a financial expert as Finance Minister Loucheur...
...Grenfell, who has gained international recognition for his work in the establishment of medical missions and educational institutions in Labrador has given informal lectures at the University for the past few years. The Grenfell mission work is dependent on volunteers and in recent years Dr. Grenfell has had an increasing number of college students with him during the summer...