Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sources of the Orinoco will be surveyed and mapped. The region is one of the hottest, as well as the most dangerous places on earth, infested by disease, insects, animals, savages. Mrs. Rice intends also to visit a school for Indian children at Sao Gabriel Mission, Brazil, which she established on previous trips. Under Spanish fathers, this school has metamorphosed the life of the community. The region is also a happy hunting-ground for ethnological studies. Curious native customs abound. Records of them and specimens of their culture will be collected for the Peabody Museum of Harvard. The cannibalistic tribes...
Professor Hudson has had a prominent career in the promotion of peace. Secretary to the Mission Peace Society 1912-1919; attached to the United States Government inquiry on terms of peace 1917-1918; to the International Law Division of the American Commission to negotiate peace at Paris 1918-1919; a member of the Paris Peace Conference in 1919; a member of the legal section of the secretarist of the League of Nations since 1919; and legal advisor to the International Labor Conference in Washington in 1919 and in Genoa in 1920. Professor Hudson has also recently won second place...
...greetings and expressions of friendship which you bear from His Majesty the King, and from the Prime Minister of your country, are cordially reciprocated and, together with your own well-known goodwill, give every assurance of the success of your mission in promoting that good understanding and intimacy of intercourse which both Governments desire to maintain...
...During the war he enlisted in the 27th Engineers and was transferred to the Intelligence Department under Major Rupert Hughes. He was discharged as sergeant shortly after the armistice. He returned to New York and was on the Wall Street Journal until coming west in 1920 on a special mission for the Republican National Committee...
...destruction of the Grenfell Hospital in Labrador will not affect those men joining the Grenfell Mission this year. In fact, there will probably be a request issued for more members, so that the hospital may be rebuilt...