Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Received a memorial from the Philippine Independence Mission asking freedom for the Islands and attacking Governor General Wood...
...proud alike, have laid their unwanted children in the arms of charity? Have you heard of the tarnished fame of Hell's Kitchen as it used to be? Sailors Snug Harbor, where a thousand old seamen find refuge and a little security after many storms; the Bowery Mission; the cheap, grudgingly-charitable men's hotel that Mr. Dreiser calls the "wayplace of the fallen;" old Samuel Clampitt's junkyard on 135th Street by the Harlem River, with its stuttering hunched proprietor who kept savage Great Danes in his yard-Mr. Dreiser can take you to them...
...Samuel Guy Inman urged withdrawal of the U. S. Naval Mission in Brazil in order to stop the armament race in South America...
...offset this criticism the Foreign Mission Board issued a statement (TIME, Dec. 3) to the effect that its missionaries were, so far as ascertainable, orthodox...
...wager,' I dressed up in the old woman make-up that I wear in The Lullaby and collected 28? by begging on the streets outside the Knickerbocker Theatre, Manhattan. As a result of the publicicity which attended this stunt, I received a letter from the West Side Gospel Mission stating that 28? was sufficeint to buy a loaf of bread and a pail of coal. My press agent was quick to announce that I sent the 28? to the mission, plus a check for $25, 'to show she was as well off as most beggars...