Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founded by Fra Junipero Serra in 1776 the Mission of San Juan Capistrano on California's coast about half way between Los Angeles and San Diego, was already well seasoned when Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Two Years Before the Mast) visited it last century, called it the loneliest and loveliest spot he had ever seen. Of the legends clustered about this historic shrine mellowest is the tale that for 160 years migrating swallows have arrived at the Mission each year on March 19 (St Joseph's Day), flown south again on Oct. 23 (St. John...
Died. Sir Guy Standing, 63, versatile British actor; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. He commanded a destroyer in the War, was knighted for service with the British War Mission to the U. S. in 1918. A talented pianist and marine artist, he had not been well since a Black Widow spider bit him during the filming of Lives of a Bengal Lancer...
...situation in 1937 was abnormal, accepted a quota of 100,000,000 yd. for 1938 with the option of transferring not more than one-fourth the 1938 quota to 1937. Having thus triumphantly established quantity limitations as the basis for Japanese-American trade in cotton textiles, the U. S. mission, before sailing for home, agreed to appoint members to a joint standing committee before April 1 to set similar quotas in manufactured goods such as tablecloths, bedspreads, handkerchiefs...
...preparing to take the offensive again," and the Million Unit Fellowship is designed to lead Methodists toward a better social order, "a Christian way" between Fascism and Communism. At this concept Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, perhaps the world's greatest Methodist and the leader of the National Preaching Mission last autumn (TIME, Sept. 28 et seq.). has been hammering away in recent speeches up & down the land. Last week to the aid of Dr. Jones and the Fellowship went one of the nation's most pious and eminent non-Methodists, John D. Rockefeller Jr., who spoke to Methodists...
Picked out of a 5?-&-10? store by a suave gentleman crook (William Powell), Fay Cheyney is willing to undertake stealing a pearl necklace from a Duchess until the ease with which she fits into the duchess' social circle makes her mission seem both humiliating and unnecessary. Lord Kelton (Frank Morgan), the richest peer in England, as well as young Lord Billing have proposed to her on the evening when, out of well-bred loyalty to her accomplices, she cracks the duchess' safe. When Lord Billing surprises her in the act of handing over her booty...