Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foreign commerce, to increase the prices of what the farmer buys and to reduce the prices of what he sells. ... I am here primarily to learn rather than to teach. ... I am not a dirt farmer nor a pictorial farmer." He recalled Mr. Dawes' suggestion for a com mission to investigate and recommend remedies. "It has not even the merit of novelty!" he exclaimed. "I can smell the moth balls now." He concluded: "We undertake: "To adopt an international policy of such cooperation as will reestablish the farmer's export market by restoring the industrial balance in Europe...
...Walsh, of Georgetown University, Director General of the Papal Relief Mission to Russia, touched off the week's second pyrotechnical display by stating that the Soviet Government had officially admitted to the execution of 1,800,000 persons between 1917 and 1922. Arthur B. Ruhl, traveler and journalist, declared the figures "quite impossible." Dr. Harry A. Garfield, host of the Institute, also deprecated, suggested Father Walsh had meant to include all those killed in riots, street skirmishes and the like. Father Walsh stuck to his story, however, and received support from Sir Bernard Pares, English editor. The Russian discussion ended...
With E. M. Herr, President of the Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., as their stout Cortez, a group of U. S. bankers, manufacturers, exporters goes this week to Mexico. The purpose of the mission is to further industrial and financial relationships between the two countries. The personnel includes some of the most impressive figures, some of the most distinguished names known to business. Said Mr. Herr, who has long stared with eagle eye at the Pacific: "This expedition is not a selling proposition nor a sight-seeing tour. It is a mission of good will. The U. S. and Canada have...
...preparation. The swagger and tinsel of war in the theatre of eight years ago has been discarded. The majority of these new productions are bitter, ironic dissections of sorrow. Probably none of them will possess the mordant satiric force of Shaw's Arms and the Man. Yet their mission is clear. The young men who have written them have been to war. After five years their protests must be heard...
...Charles Jaggers, born a slave in the first half of the 19th Century, began preaching from fence corners, always on one text: "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 2:5). With some contributions, he established a mission; with others he took the gospel to the chain gangs. At the end of each year he took one cent salary. He was wont to say: "My services belong...