Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nose, prominent jaw. Author Wright looks more like a preacher than a writer. He used to be a preacher (Christian Disciples) in California, Missouri and Kansas, but retired from pulpiteering proper in 1908, went to Arizona "as a matter of health insurance." There he still lives, in a Spanish-Mission house near Tucson. He has recently (February) returned from Hawaii, where he worked on Exit, fished for mahimahi from a sampan. Twice married, ex-Preacher Wright has three children, all issue of the first wife...
...mixed in political color and must, by implication, be regional and represent different groups of thought, which makes a picture puzzle to select." To the Senate last week as Federal Power Commissioner the President sent the nominations of: Claude L. Draper, chair-man of the Wyoming Public Utilities Com- mission; Ralph B. Williamson, Yakima. Wash., lawyer; Marcel Garsaud, Engineer of the Port of New Orleans...
...acting Stahlhelm leaders, who had previously refused to treat with Socialist Braun, called upon him. They promised that if allowed to parade before Old Paul they would not thereafter stage military maneuvres in the Rhineland. This promise was really a Hindenburg-Stahlhelm capitulation. Dr. Braun accepted it, gave per-mission for the Stahlhelm parades. Disgruntled, Old Paul put Rhenish Prussia back on the itinerary of his triumphal tour (see below...
Mystery. When Mr. Mills did arrive in Paris, he carefully explained he was going on a holiday yachting trip in the Mediterranean. Nevertheless his presence in France generated an atmosphere of intense expectancy. Was his story of the usual diplomatic kind that conceals a secret mission of high international import? He insisted he would see no French officials ?and then he waited over 24 hours on the chance of conferring with Premier André Tardieu. A mysterious appointment was made for 5 p.m. The French Premier waited two hours for Mr. Mills to arrive, only to learn that...
...Mystery. Whatever Mr. Mills's mission, France permitted no mystery to envelop her feeling about the new U. S. tariff. Neither did Italy. Neither did England. At a political meeting in Paris, Raymond Poincaré, four times Premier and a party colleague of present Premier Tardieu, flayed the "blind economy and selfish nationalism" of the U. S. He warned: "There is a crisis in the friendship of the two nations which if it is not remedied promptly will grow worse." At Rome the Italian Government upped the duty on automobiles, prime U. S. export, by 167% (see p. 24). In Washington...