Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese Colonel Takeo Imai, the Japanese Resident, crowed: "Everything is brightness itself! Not a single Chinese soldier remains in Peiping." Japan's Domei news agency added that "a stream of would-be-constructive Chinese statesmen is pouring into the offices of the Japanese Army's Special Service Mission" -i.e., offering themselves as prospective cabinet ministers should North China presently be organized by the Japanese into "another...
Premier van Zeeland, shortly before he left Brussels for Washington last month as an economic emissary for Britain and France as well as his own country, was naturally much preoccupied with his mission, and permitted his Cabinet to be persuaded by militant Flemish Nationalists to introduce and rush through the Belgian Chamber just before he sailed a most controversial Amnesty Bill. This bill goes back to early days of the World War, when many Flemist Nationalists, eager at all times to set up Flanders as an independent country apart from Belgium, were duped into thinking Imperial Germany would aid their...
...King, and this tactical sop to opponents of Amnesty foreshadowed a period of political haggling, possible compromise and modification of the law. Brussels wiseacres agreed that the hard-headed Belgian public has been totally unimpressed, one way or the other, by Premier van Zeeland's grand transatlantic mission. They consider that M. & Mme van Zeeland have had harmless White House fun, that their Premier must now once more devote himself exclusively to Belgium's earnest knitting...
...Prime mystery to Wall Street analysts has always been the exact part played by "little fellows" in market activity. To clear it up the Securities & Exchange Com-mission started last month to tabulate and release daily figures on odd-lot trading (less than loo-share lots), which makes up about one-fifth of all Stock Exchange transactions. Last week a full month of these figures provided solid data for experts in New York and Washington. Total buying orders for 2,934,843 shares with a value of $126,257.589 compared to total selling orders for 2,395.990 shares with...
...Neill bought a 160-acre tract of land, planned to build a $40,000 Spanish Mission house into which he and his wife, one-time Actress Carlotta Monterey, who was born Carlotta Hill at nearby Monterey, Calif., hope to move next December...