Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grenfell Mission Selection...
...befits one who goes forth on a mission representing the person of the Pope, Legate Dougherty assembled a retinue in Rome and with bands blaring embarked at Naples on the S. S. Conte Rosso, flying the yellow-&-white Papal flag and carrying twelve altars for the devotions of its passenger list...
...Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Chairman of the Federal Reserve Eccles came to the White House on a mysterious mission. Three days later the country was told that the Reserve Board had upped bank reserve requirements one-third more, to the maximum allowed...
...appropriation in the Constitution and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general Government ought to be ex tended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, the Government should not support the people...
...past Composer Prokofieff has not objected to statements that he was an exile, his property having been confiscated after he fled the Revolution. At last week's Chicago concert, program notes had it that he left Russia with the Soviet Government's per- mission "in consequence of the general confusion." In any case, Russian Prokofieff now maintains an apartment in Moscow, where his sons Sviatoslav, 12, and Eleg, 7, are being brought up. Thither last week he had a new Ford shipped...