Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brisk whirl around the corner in a taxi and Buckingham Palace was reached. Mr. Baldwin was immediately ushered into the Presence; and the King-charged him with forming a new Cabinet-a mission which he was prompt to accept...
...organization can be. Young men who enter can be reasonably sure that they will have the same opportunity to show their stuff that they would have in some business concern. The only branch in which the merit system is not exclusively employed is in the appointment of heads of mission. In this regard, the President still keeps his right to reward prominent men at home with ministerial or ambassadorial appointments abroad, but at the same time he has not disregarded the capable men who have risen from the ranks and are fitted to assume the responsibilities of heads of mission...
Later, M. Maklakov requested the Papal Nuncio. Monsignor Cerretti, to hand over the building to the Bolsheviki. It was believed that the Pope's Ambassador accepted the mission, but the report was unconfirmed. At all events, the royalist Russians removed all their papers and documents to another building before quitting the Embassy...
...have the honor to place in your hands, Most Excellent Sir, the autographed letters of the Most Excellent, the President of the Republic of Ecuador, which bring to an end the diplomatic mission entrusted to my distinguished predecessor, the Most Excellent Senor Doctor Don Rafael H. Elizalde, and which accredit me in the high capacity of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near the Government of Your Excellency...
...friendship of your Government for the United States, so generously expressed, affords me abundant assurance that you will so conduct the affairs of your mission as to advance the interests common to both Governments ; and it will be my pleasant duty to cooperate most heartily to this...