Word: missionize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...while history embellished, it was not supposed to conceal, the hustings. Election of the men he wants was Franklin Roosevelt's immediate mission. Along his way, Senators and would-be Senators crowded close, competing to enjoy the magic of his aura, the salvation of his smile...
...across the continent to separate "liberal" sheep from "conservative" goats (see p. 7), quietly out of Washington for a tour of his own slipped James Aloysius Farley, chief shepherd of all Franklin Roosevelt's political herds. No believer in griping party purges, Jim Farley's mission was to soothe feelings already hurt in primary fights, encourage sheep and goats to stampede all together in November. His first stop was at Fond du Lac, Wis., his second at Sheboygan, Wis., his third at Clinton, Iowa. Altogether, Shepherd James Farley planned to stop, look & listen in more than 100 towns...
...General von Falkenhausen. For a brief period General Hans von Seeckt, former commander of the German Republic's Reichswehr, served as a super-adviser. Under German advice, Prussian discipline-including the goosestep-was introduced into Chinese crack divisions. Most important to Germany was the fact that the mission persuaded China to buy German military equipment...
...from the U. S. in November 1945, as now scheduled. The U. S. Philippine Ordinance expressly forbids the Filipinos any direct participation in foreign affairs until 1945 and, as he left Tokyo for Manila late last week. President Quezon vehemently denied that he had been engaged in any "security" mission. Nevertheless, the Japanese Foreign Office frankly admitted that Foreign Minister Ugaki, who is highly touted as his country's next Premier, had assured the Philippine executive that the still unborn nation "need have no fear of Japan...
...London munitions firm, bored by office routine, crazy for money and the world's fleshpots. Big devil is Munitions Tycoon Cornelius Lamsden, fiendish rhapsodizer on the worthlessness of mankind and the profit and beauty in killing with Lamsden munitions, who sends Luckypenny to Italy on a confidential mission, makes him his righthand man. By the time the double-crossing complications of the plot have lured Luckypenny to his end, Author Marshall's sermon has long since turned silly, a farce which means to be horrible but is only horribly funny...