Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Behind the political scenes at Paris a fierce controversy was waged over the composition of the French debt mission to the U. S. which is to sail in September. M. Franklin-Bouillon, Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies' Foreign Relations Committee, a famed and able diplomat, was most eager to head the delegation. He was supported by Premier Painlevé and by many other good friends, who pointed out that his marvelous English vocabulary and diction, equaling his French eloquence, made him preeminently suitable. Stolid, squat Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister, agreed; but he did not and would not agree...
Nicaragua. Proselytism is usually more dangerous for the proselyters than for the proselytees, as a party of Protestant missionaries discovered last week in Catholic Granada, Nicaragua. From the outset the local Catholic Bishop was distinctly adverse to having the Protestant Central American Mission ensconced in his diocese. But the Protestants came, presumably to proselytize, and the Catholics grew irate, made angry noises, threw stones, then threatened violence, death. The missionaries ?two females and one male?asked the Nicaraguan Government for protection. A commission of inquiry and 50 soldiers were sent...
...will be its [the Federation's] mission to comb out of the world civilization those virtues which lend themselves to happiness and progress, and foster and cultivate them, and to make determined war upon those elements which retard or misdirect and which are hangovers of primitive days...
Count Skrzynski came to the U. S. upon the invitation of the Williamstown Institute of Politics to lecture upon Poland and conditions in Central Europe. But he had, as he himself explained, "a sentimental mission" to the American people. "We still have to discharge," he added, "the debt of gratitude* which we feel we owe the American people for the part played by them in Poland's restoration to independence and for their aid and sympathy...
...falling, ravenous clouds of mosquitoes filled the sultry air and fattened on the white men as they fished for trout and salmon, shot seals, took pictures, exhibited their two Navy seaplanes and their radio apparatus to curious Eskimos, visited with the Rev. W. W. Ferret, head of the Moravian mission of Hopedale...