Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sometimes, as was indicated in the arrest of the bakery owner last fortnight, businessmen who want to keep competition down and prices up in spite of anti-trust laws organize it themselves, take racketeers as partners. Last week, well aware of the significance of his mission, Dewey Assistant Herlands set out to give the nation its first complete courtroom exposition of the way such a racketeering outfit works. Restaurants, On trial before Justice McCook were three officials of the "Metropolitan Restaurant & Cafeteria Associa- tion," three of a local of A. F. of L.'s Hotel & Restaurant Employes International Alliance...
Artist Kent's protege is a 25-year-old Alaskan named George Aden Ahgupuk, better known as Twok. As a child in a mission school in northwestern Alaska he was in constant hot water with his teachers for covering valuable sheets of paper with walruses, kyacks, reindeer and seagulls, but Eskimo Twok never thought of being a professional artist until a hunting accident put him in a hospital for a year, left him crippled for life. Twok moved to Noorvik, Alaska, began drawing the daily life of his people on sheets of reindeer and sealskin parchment that he scraped...
...students will be chosen from the undergraduate body of the University by Phillips Brooks House to be sent to Labrador to work for the Grenfell Mission next summer. Their travelling expenses from Portland, Maine, and their board and lodging will be paid...
...will be placed at one of the stations on the coast, probably at Cartwright. The other will spend the summer as a seaman on the mission schooner "George B. Cluett," which carries the volunteer workers from Portland to Labrador and then spends the rest of the summer distributing the supplies for the winter to the various stations on the coast from Saint Anthony, Newfoundland, the mission base...
...traipsing off to Boston on Christmas Eve (see col. 2), Mrs. Roosevelt completed a schedule of holiday duties more than equal to those of the President. On that day alone, besides the community tree lighting, she helped the Central Union Mission distribute toys to 600 children assembled in a theatre, took part in the President's party for the White House office staff, another party in the East room for the White Household staff, and attended a Christmas party of the Salvation Army. Her activities during the rest of the week were every bit as strenuous. Most notable...