Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mission Indian Harry Chauca (Los Angeles A. C.) broke by 15 4/10 sec. a 25-year-old world's record set by Great Britain's Alfred E. Shrubb for the 6-mi. run. The new record...
Amusement, then approval, was the reaction of smart, cosmopolitan Buenos Aires last week to Amos Schwartzenstruber. A potent member of the Mennonite Mission Board of the U. S. and Canada is Mr. Schwartzenstruber. He reached Buenos Aires after an inspection tour through the Mennonite colony in Gran Chaco ("Great Hunting-Ground"), the remote and disputed region over which Bolivia and Paraguay were recently at war de facto if not de jure (TIME...
...years ago, Rev. Sturges Allen, then 73, Father of the Order of the Holy Cross (strict Episcopal Monastic Order at West Park, N. Y.) asked permission of the then Bishop of Liberia, Rt. Rev. Walter Overs, to join the Liberian mission. Because of Father Allen's age, Bishop Overs refused...
Father Allen went. He said he would rather live only six months more, usefully, in Africa, than ten years more in the U. S., where "a priest 70 years old is not wanted much." Last week came news that Father Allen had died, aged 79, in the mission of Bolahun. Liberia, whither his Lord had called...
...inspector asked the Congressman if he had any liquor. The Congressman replied that he had four bottles of whiskey, but as he was a Government official returning from an official mission he could not be stopped. The inspector dipped into one bag and brought up four bottles which he set conspicuously upon a packing case. Customs Inspector James McCabe, working nearby, witnessed the incident, saw the bottles. The Congressman went to a telephone, called the Custom House, obtained a "free entry" order. Liquor was not mentioned in that telephone conversation. The Congressman was thereupon passed, tak- ing with...