Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of five raids need not kill more than five people. But apparently nothing in the world can make the Chinese people defend themselves intelligently. Last week 18 Japanese planes flew three times over Ichang, Yangtze trading centre between Hankow and Chungking. Bombs damaged two American mission compounds clearly identified with U. S. flags and clearly marked on maps given the Japanese last June. U. S. Consul General in Hankow Paul R. Josselyn lodged a sharp protest which the Japanese did not immediately answer. But the appalling news about the three raids was that when the planes had dropped their...
...proclaim to a world which is once again madly preparing for war that the gospel of God as revealed in Jesus Christ . . . leaves us with no other choice but to refuse to sanction or participate in war. . . . We affirm our faith that the mission of the church today is to witness with singleness of heart, at whatever cost, to the power of good to overcome evil, of love to conquer hatred, of the Cross to shatter the sword...
...declared war, his knowledge of languages and European affairs landed him in the U. S. State Department, where he had an office only three doors from that of Franklin Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He was one of the youngest members of President Wilson's peace-treaty mission to Paris in 1918-19, and he was prominent among the group of young men who protested the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. He resigned from the peace commission when they could not get them changed...
...seven rivals in the race for the presidency. Active in P. B. H. activities, he has served as a member of the Freshman Committee, chairman of the Speakers Committee, and as a member of the Senior Advisory Committee. Quimby, runner-up with 117 votes, is chairman, of the Mission Committee...
...arrangement seemed so near to going through that Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet announced that Jules Henry, French Ambassador to Spain, would not return to Loyalist territory. Senator Léon Bérard, who has already been to Rebel Spain on one "unofficial" mission, returned to Burgos, this time for "official" negotiations. Sir Robert Hodgson, British Agent to Rebel Spain, began long talks with Count Francisco Gómez Jordana, Rebel Foreign Minister...