Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further his interests in Tide Water, Oilman Getty purchased working control of Mission Corp., an investing company which owns 1,128,000 shares of Tide Water Associated stock.* With this move the Tide Water directors apparently grew suspicious of Mr. Getty's intentions. At the next Tide Water stockholders' meeting, over Mr. Getty's opposition, an amendment was passed which changed the terms of directors. President William Francis Humphrey and three others were re-elected for three-year terms, biggest Stockholder Getty for a single year. At the 1936 stockholders' meeting, Mr. Getty tried to secure...
This impulse Premier Largo Caballero gave by fairly burning up the wires in a telephone conversation from Valencia with luckless General José Miaja who had been left behind to defend the capital. He rushed from the phone to issue a blustering manifesto: "Courage! Our victory is certain. My mission is to defend Madrid at all costs. You must give up your lives before yielding another inch of ground!" Meanwhile Madrid syndicalist newspapers excitedly explained the Government's flight. If the Whites were able to catch and imprison its members, they argued, then foreign powers would have no choice...
...best-known intellectual is the great Unamuno,it was heartening to the White cause this week that Premier Largo Caballero and his Valencians were arraigned as follows by Philosopher Mieuel de Unamuno, Rector of the University of Salamanca : "The University, while not mixing in politics because of its spiritual mission extending through centuries of tradition, feels itself in duty bound to express in a virile manner its condemnation of the crimes of the [Caballero] Loyalists of Spain...
...generosity, youth, bravery, virility, as well as by the strange slang she attributes to her U. S. characters. Ruth gives herself to her U. S. lover, is heart broken after his death in the Argonne that she did not bear his child. On a famine relief mission in Russia after the War, she meets Janet's son, marries him, plunges into politics, finds a measure of peace...
Read the Putsch Pasha's communique: "His Majesty the King Has requested me to discharge the present Government and form another Ministry under Hikmat Bey Suleiman [a creature of the Pasha's] . . . our Movement has no object except realization of the happiness of the people . . . our mission is the will of the King...