Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...create a permanent Oil Com-mission to study conservation of oil deposits, its membership to include the Secretaries of War, Navy, Interior...
Sadoul. But the greatest news of the day, for Frenchmen at least, was the arrest of Jacques Sadoul. Once the member of a French Mission to Russia, Captain Sadoul had become so enamoured of Bolshevism that he deserted to the Bolshevik ranks. In 1919, a Paris court martial condemned him to death in absense for treason...
Personnel. Every four years, the Council elects a President. Dean Shailer Mathews (1912-16), original theologian and famed University of Chicago educator, was representative of the worth which religious thinkers have attached to the Council. Frank Mason North (1916-20), Secretary of a Mission Board, was representative of the unity urge which has come from American missionaries abroad. Robert E. Speer (1920-24), also Secretary of a Mission Board, is regarded as one of the greatest churchmen and pulpit orators of this quarter century. He is perhaps most representative of the church-going public. But most of the Council...
When asked to compare Shaw and Pirandello, he declared. "Shaw is probably much cleverer than Pirandello, but the latter is more intellectual and serious in his attitude towards life. The Irish dramatist writes his plays with a moral mission in the back of his mind, while Pirandello only wants to give utterance to his defiance of conventionalities...
...Clark comes from Ahmednagar India, where he has been principal of a boys high school. He is now raising funds for the community house of the Marathi Mission in Bombay where he is going when he returns to India. The work is social service among the Christian mill workers of Bombay...