Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little more than two. When the Japanese Army entered Manchuria and set up the so-called state of Manchukuo, Amakasu went over to help occupy, was presently active in Manchukuo's "General Affairs Bureau." Naturally he was appointed vice-chairman of a Manchukuoan Good Will and Economic Mission of 26 members which recently set out for a tour of Italy, the Vatican City, Germany, Rightist Spain, El Salvador, nations which pretend there is such an independent State as Manchukuo...
...signed a truce. While the fighting with the Red Army was at its hottest fortnight ago, Japanese aviators bombed Chinese cities only halfheartedly. Last week they redoubled their bombing zeal over the triplet Wuhan cities (Hanyang, Wuchang, Hankow), killed at least 1,000 people, damaged five U. S. mission properties. With the final battle for Hankow approaching, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek removed as much factory machinery as possible and shipped it upriver with Hankow's 500,000 fleeing civilians...
...hats to meet a Purely Private Person at the station, sent their own top hats, and in every observable respect Britain's unofficial mediator became official. His large staff of British Civil Servants released press handouts on crisp sheets headed "From Lord Runciman's Mission." In his first public utterance at Prague the Viscount created a great stir by thanking Sudeten German delegates for having met him at the station. Vexed Czechs made tart comments. Sudetens, learning with glee that "the British milord speaks German but he does not speak Czech," began referring to him as "Runzelmann" -which...
Conversions In the Papuan jungles of New Guinea, Geoffrey Baskett from the Kwata Mission reported that he had converted 300 head hunters to the Oxford Movement...
...bred. Fourth Authority member is Mormon-born Democrat Robert Hinckley, assistant WPA administrator for Far Western States and supervisor of considerable WPA airport and airway project work. Fifty-year-old Indiana Republican Oswald Ryan, fifth member, has for six years been gen eral counsel to the Federal Power Com mission...