Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon discouraged at seeing a truckload of five husky young men drive up to a homestead, two men reach for and pick perhaps one pepper, then the crew and their transportation hunt a tree for shade and well earned rest. I sincerely hope our Senator fails in his mission to get $50,000,000 to increase our troubles. Perhaps Congress will vote him the 0's and not the 5. We who love our State are sticking all the closer. While being poor is no fun, this is the best place in the world to be poor...
Into the White House one day last week marched eleven solemn-faced churchmen. It was hot. Few of them wore waistcoats. Newsgatherers in the lobby were about to mistake them for businessmen on an economic mission when they recognized Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, leading the procession back into the president's office. Also recognized were Rev. David G. Wylie, Lord's Day Alliance president, and Rev. Harry Laity Bowlby, its secretary. Ranged around President Hoover, they made six small speeches each asking the President's support for a Sunday closing...
...Their mission: To defend or to abandon the 25% ad valorem tariff on imported automobiles, as specified in the tariff measure passed by the House of Representatives and now before the Senate. Their message: That the automotive industry would be well satisfied with a 10% duty. But countervailing duties* should be maintained and the 25% duty should remain on trucks, buses...
...Chicago last week Newsman John Gunther (author, Golden Fleece, Harper's, 1929, $2.50; Eden jor One, Harper's, 1927, $2; Red Pavilion, Harper's, 1926, $2) of the Chicago Daily News went to interview Market Operator Arthur W. Cutten. His mission was apropos of nothing but Mr. Cutten's position as famed Bull. He found Mr. Cutten easy to talk to, difficult to interview...
...took an A.B. from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1917, later an S.T.B. from Boston University's Theological School. During the War he served as a second lieutenant of aviation. He was a member of Europe's Reconstruction Committee in 1919, and later a member of the Methodist Mission to China. For a time he wrote dispatches for the Christian Science Monitor from Russia and other parts of Europe...