Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen of Sheba, promptly flashed charges to Geneva that it was the Italians who wantonly attacked. He further charged that the frontier cities of Ado and Gerlogubi had been pelted by Italian airmen with bombs. Two days later Geneva newshawks were handed by Italy's local diplomatic mission copies of a blunt, unsigned manifesto from Rome. Couched in the first person, it stated that "I will not" submit to League arbitration of the Ualual Incident. All this African fracas might just possibly be the overture to II Duce's long postponed symphony of colonial conquest...
...China were the John C. Stams. Both children of Protestant churchmen, they looked remarkably alike: serious, firm-jawed young people with tortoise-shell glasses. Married 14 months ago, Mrs. Stam had her first child, a girl, by a caesarean operation, last September. Outposters of the interdenomi national China Inland Mission, they taught the way of the Lord in Tsingteh in Southern Anhwei Province, 200 miles from Nanking, which is Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's stronghold of law & order...
...Galangue Mission Station in Angola, Portuguese West Africa; run by six U. S. Negroes under the auspices of the Congregational and Christian mission board...
...Riddell tact, kindliness and news-sense were first demonstrated in the U. S. at the Washington Disarmament Conference in 1921. At his own expense, Lord Riddell accompanied the British mission headed by Foreign Secretary Balfour. Elaborately disclaiming any "official" standing Lord Riddell acquired a room in the U. S. Navy Department's stucco building on the Mall, proceeded to "dope" the conference for U. S. newshawks twice a day. Even during the long periods ot closed sessions, Lord Riddell's "unofficial" well of information, always extremely accurate, never went dry. His presence was a Godsend to correspondents...
...yard breaststroke--Harvard: Mission V. Leventriff '35, Phillip Jr. '36, Walter S. White '36: Alumni; Guy C. Larcom...