Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands of churches throughout the land this Sunday, devout Catholics will drop 1? in a plate in the vestibule, help themselves to copies of a magazine named Catholic Missions. On its rotogravure cover they behold a sea-&-sunset scene captioned: "Enchanted Isles. In the islands of the South Seas 1,566 missioner priests, brothers and nuns are laboring efficiently among 1,835,030 natives." Thumbing through its 24 smooth, substantial pages, readers see rotogravures of the Pope in a procession, a Chinese moppet learning the rosary, a Japanese babe on an old man's back, Indian nuns and Chinese...
...member of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America at Maryknoll, N. Y., Father Keller was borrowed this year by his Church's biggest missionary organization, the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith. He discussed with his superior, Rt. Rev. Monsignor William Quinn, his ideas for making a quarterly pictorial of Catholic Missions, which S. P. F. had been publishing for ten years. Father Keller had in mind increasing its circulation from 80,000 to 500,000. Distribution would cost little because each issue could be sent out by freight, disposed of in the churches...
Died. Major General George Herbert Harries (retired), 74; of pneumonia; in Waverly, Md. He was Wartime Commander of the port of Brest, France, through which passed most U. S. War supplies. As chief of the U. S. Military Mission to Germany he was the first U. S. officer to enter Berlin after the Armistice...
...Glory", Lockhart's sequel to his famed "British Agent," is not quite as good as that original opus for the simple reason that the material is not as good. In this tale of travel and experience after the war, Lockhart takes us on his semi-official banking and diplomatic mission to East-central Europe...
Contrary to both State and Federal statutes, the lottery seemed by the end of the week to have few friends, little chance of survival. Churchmen leaped up to denounce it, well aware that they could take credit for having killed it. The Brooklyn Church and Mission Federation began circulating petitions against it. The American Protestant Defense League called it "immoral and degrading." The Society for the Prevention of Crime threatened to take legal action and Lawyer Samuel Untermyer said that two reform organizations had asked him to represent them against it in court. To Mayor LaGuardia went protests from...