Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President told them: "I am neither a prestidigitator nor an astrologer." Forthwith he denied that he and Senator Bulkley had talked about anything except Ohio politics. Any impression that he and the President had talked about dollar devaluation was "entirely in error." declared Turnquote Bulkley. His White House mission had been solely to promote Representative Charles West of Ohio for budget director...
...more medical quacks than any state in the Union. It righteously keeps Tom Mooney in jail at San Quentin, kneels prayerfully at the feet of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson in Los Angeles. California blinks its eyes from the glare of kleig lights in hysterical Hollywood, is lulled by the mission bells of Santa Barbara. Anything can happen in fabulous California. What will happen in California on Nov. 6 is an enormous question mark placed at the end of a tense and terrible political campaign which will reach its climax on Election Day. Not only will California then choose...
Colonist. No sooner had Upton Sinclair pocketed his profits than he embarked on his first Utopia, the Helicon Hall Colony. Site was an expensive Mission-type building at Englewood, N. J. above the Hudson, which had been erected for a boys' school. Radical literary folk were welcomed, the idea behind the establishment being bonhomie and laissez faire. Sinclair Lewis went down from Yale to tend the furnace. Englewood, then as now a tycoons' home ground, took an instant dislike to the Helicon Hallers and their host, who used to go around the town in old corduroys, flannel shirt...
...51st triennial General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church got under way in Atlantic City last week, 10,000 people gathered in vast Convention Hall for a mission rally. Dr. Lewis B. Franklin, treasurer of the Church's National Council, was about to announce results of a ''Thank Offering" collected among the women when suddenly a plain churchman whom few recognized leaped up, strode to a microphone before the high altar. As Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry looked on with amazement from his throne, Rev. Cornelius Polhemus Trowbridge of Salem, Mass, cried: "I am not Franklin...
...tragedy that the French minister should have been forced to share his fate. Since his accession to office, M. Barthou has been largely responsible for bringing Russia into the League of Nations, for guiding Italy towards a greater understanding of the Anglo-French outlook, and it was his sincere mission to achieve a closer alliance with the English-speaking nations,--not to mention his part in the formation of the Eastern Locarno Pact. He was one of the most enlightened ministers in France since Poincare...