Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley lunched with President Hoover at the White House, hurried out to Boiling Field, climbed into a big Army plane, flew off on an important mission. On one of the longest river junkets ever undertaken by a Secretary of War, he was going to inspect the Mississippi from (navigable) source to delta, from Minneapolis to the Gulf. President Hoover wanted him to find out how the $325,000,000 flood control program was progressing, how navigational improvements along the stream were getting on, what could be done to speed up the work...
...have not forgotten the wound on our eastern flank and the lopping off of the Vistula district, nor have we forgotten how shabbily Woodrow Wilson urged the unnatural severing of East Prussia from the Fatherland. . . . We intend, of course, to fulfill our European mission without going to war, but, on the contrary, only soldiers with front experience can liquidate...
Died. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Ramon M. Mestres, 66, longtime pastor of Carmel Mission (Calif.) where in 1899 he married Lou Henry and Herbert Clark Hoover; recipient of the Order of Isabella the Catholic from King Alfonso XIII of Spain for his restoration of Carmel Mission; after a long illness; at San Jose...
Proud indeed last week were followers of Nicholas Constantinovich Roerich, painter-explorer-mystic. In the 24-story apartment-house-museum which his disciples have built for him on upper Riverside Drive, Manhattan, there was happy talk about the Master's latest step in his mission of Unifying Humanity Through Art. From Roerich in Paris had come a cable saying that the League of Nations' International Commission of Intellectual Cooperation (TIME, Aug. 4) had endorsed an international convention suggested by him to ensure Art's neutrality and safety in wartime. The "Roerich Pact" was drawn...
...Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Elijah Johnson, Negro handler, was caught plugging a piece of sponge into the nostril of Racehorse Sun Mission to shorten his wind, insure his losing. Sun Mission finished third. Elijah Johnson's sentence: 90 days in gaol...