Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...built an air battle fleet the equal of Great Britain's, and his demand for a German navy 35% as strong as hers, has given official London the jitters. He has also given suave, poker-faced Joachim von Ribbentrop the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on Special Mission-the special mission being to see what Britannia has to say about Germany's naval demands. Last week Ambassador von Ribbentrop, after a quick dash to London, was able to tell the Realmleader in his Bavarian retreat that His Majesty's Government seemed ready to capitulate, if Herr...
...MacVeagh and a quorum of the Greek Cabinet traveled up last week to the northern seaport of Salonika. Base of Allied operations during the War, Salonika was shelled again during the abortive Venizelist revolt last March. This time, however, diplomats and statesmen were going north on a more peaceful mission-to honor one of the most permanent institutions in the Balkans, bearded little old John Henry House of the American Farm School in Salonika...
Seeking Divorce. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, 42, author (The Good Earth, Sons, House Divided), onetime Presbyterian mission teacher in China, resigned because of her religious liberalism (TIME, May 8, 1933); from John Lossing Buck, onetime agricultural missionary; in Reno. She was reported planning to marry President Richard John Walsh of John Day Co., who published her Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Good Earth...
After years of talking about it, U. S. Protestants last week did something about ending waste and competition in home mission projects. Of 32 bodies belonging to the Home Missions Council, five of the largest agreed that after next Oct. 1 they will refrain from subsidizing any enterprise-such as a village church or a school for Indians-that appears to duplicate the work of another. The five denominations -Northern Baptist, Congregational-Christian, Presbyterian, Methodist and Reformed-Evangelical - spent $12,629,883 last year, or 55% of the total for Protestant home missions...
Richard Evelyn Byrd : "His real talent, as I intimately saw him, was that of a promoter. . . . I don't believe that he is a self-seeker. His presentation of self is just good showmanship. . . . A Virginia gentleman, imbued with an exploration mission in life, with the left eye slightly cocked on the profit...