Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...takes her back to his small British Army post in central Arabia. Second in command is Captain Denny Roark (Errol Flynn) for whom, as cinemaddicts will easily anticipate, she burns at first sight. Only satisfactory way out is for the noble colonel to fly away on an Army mission and dutifully disappear in the desert...
Conceived last summer in conversations between the Japan Economic Federation and the Foreign Office, the mission was organized last February, thoroughly feted in Tokyo, written up in a special supplement of the Osaka Mainichi and the Tokyo Nichi Nichi, blessed at length by the then Prime Minister Senjuro Hayashi, Finance Minister Toyotaro Yuki and Foreign Minister Naotake Sato and showered with confetti ribbons as it sailed from Yokohama on April 28. The party of ten Japanese industrialists had no intention of making any immediate trade agreements. Avowed their chairman, sunny President Chokyuro Kadono of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce...
Compeer Forbes, who is also a grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, did not relinquish his interest in Japanese affairs with his Ambassadorship. In 1935 he went back to Japan as head of the American Economic Mission to the Far East, whose report on Japanese industry acted powerfully to dispel the popular notion that Japan's booming foreign trade was made possible by hideously sweated labor. One of the members of the Forbes mission, President Roosevelt's Georgia neighbor, Cason Callaway, followed it by helping to promote the agreement concluded last winter...
...eyed, white-bearded Theodore Steeg, Senator and onetime Premier of France (1930-31), sailed last week from Marseille to Morocco. With him went a detachment of doctors, hygiene experts officials from the Finance Ministry and officers of the General Staff, on a pressing mission...
...recovered $1,600,000 in property, and counted on $400,000 more, which Dr. Machen's church had tried to take with it when it split off from the parent body. And to Dr. Foulkes, 59, big, well-beloved leader of youth, writer of hymns and Presbyterian mission board member, there went without fuss the office-moderator-ship of the General Assembly-which year after year is handed around among members of the inner circle which runs the Presbyterian Church from...