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Word: missionizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well-heeled Nazi organizers began to appear in Chust, capital of the Carpatho-Ukraine. A military mission arrived to teach the hastily arming Ruthenians the art of warfare. A Ukrainian "Free Corps" was formed, while the Carpatho-Ukrainian militia named their organization after Colonel Eugene Konovaletz, former Ukrainian leader murdered in Amsterdam last year when an assassin, rumored to be of the Soviet secret police, placed a time bomb in his overcoat pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN EUROPE: Liberation | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Charles Curtis, Medical Superintendent of the Grenfell Mission, last night told an audience of 150 in the Geographical Institute of the work of the organization which provides medical care, school and work for the inhabitants of Newfoundland and Labrador, where medical calls have to be made by dog sled over vast areas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CURTIS RELATES WORK OF GRENFELL MISSION | 1/17/1939 | See Source »

...Since then the Grenfell Mission has grown until it comprises five hospitals, several schools, and a widespread network of nursing stations," he said. "One of the most recent projects has been rural resettlement' to enable the fishermen to make up for a fish market drastically curtalled by the world economic crisis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CURTIS RELATES WORK OF GRENFELL MISSION | 1/17/1939 | See Source »

Five and a half years ago Mr. Williamson headed another committee with exactly the same mission. Certain Western and Southern roads had tried cutting fares, had got an immediate rise in passenger revenue. Nonetheless, after due discussion, the Eastern roads decided against slashing the established 3.6?-a-mile coach fare, 4? Pullman fare. Finally, in 1936, ICC ordered them to cut to 2? and 3? respectively. The Eastern roads were furious at the order, would have fought it out in court had not the Baltimore & Ohio refused to cooperate. Passenger revenue, however, jumped as a result of the lower rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Fare Ideas | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Raymond Dennett '36, Graduate Secretary of P. B. H., also revealed yesterday that the $400 appropriation which sends two students to the Grenfell Mission in Labrador each summer has been withdrawn and will be used to finance any student summer activity along social service lines considered worthy of subsidy. Work at the Grenfell Mission is not necessarily excluded, however...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHLESINGER, LEIGHTON APPOINTED FOR P. B. H. | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

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