Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every resident of the Houses and all college dormitories will be visited personally by representatives of Brooks House at this time. In accordance with the custom of previous years, contributions of clothing will be distributed between the American Red Cross, the Grenfell Mission, and a group of needy persons and families in Cambridge who have been recommended by the Cambridge Welfare Society...
...likely that Oilman Getty would soon be "with" Tide Water directors on business matters. Last year Mission Corp., whose management is substantially the same as Tide Water's, changed the date of its annual stockholders' meeting from January until May 1937-after Tide Water's annual meeting at which elections will be held. When Mission stockholders finally do meet, says Oilman Getty, the present directors will be voted out and no longer will Mission votes be cast against him at Tide Water meetings...
Actually the Mission votes have had nothing to do with Mr. Getty's lack of success at Tide Water meetings. Whatever his own feeling may be, an overwhelming majority of the other Tide Water stockholders and more than 50% of Tide Water stock, exclusive of the Mission holdings, have consistently supported the Humphrey management...
...father, his lack of resources nor the five years he had to spend on the farm before he could start college at the age of 21. Daughter Pearl Buck asked him how he had proposed to Carrie, when he was ready to take her along on his mission. "I wrote her a letter," he said. 'It seemed to me to be the only way of putting everything clearly before her for her mature reflection...
...RETURN OF THE WEED-Paul Horgan-Harper ($2). A cycle of six lyric short stories dealing with the tenants of some desolate New Mexican ruins-an abandoned mission, a crumbling hacienda, deserted farm houses, a filling station- making a slight but effective book, well-illustrated with lithographs by Peter Kurd...