Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called "Instrument of Accession" in order for his State to enter the Indian Federation actually takes pen in hand and signs. For this purpose the Viceroy last week sent on tour as his personal emissaries to each of India's potentates three resolute political officers on special mission. Respectively the three are an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman, namely: handsome, epigrammatic Sir Courtenay Latimer, crusty Agent to the Governor General in the States of Western India, who will get potentates to sign in Baroda, the Deccan, the Gujarat Agencies and the Western India Agencies; astute and charming Francis...
Thus each of the three Political Officers on Special Mission has as his chief assignment one of three Indian super-potentates who are entitled to a salute of 21 guns. These are (see cuts, p. 22): first, the venerable dean of the Indian Princes, His Highness the progressive and benign Gaekwar of Baroda; second, the acquisitive and stern "Richest Man in the World," His Exalted Highness, the also progressive and enlightened Nizam of Hyderabad; and third, the weak and pleasure-loving Prince who was the victimized "Mr. A" of a notorious blackmail case in England twelve years ago (TIME...
...this spring, when Father Schulte traveled to the U. S. on the Hindenburg and thereupon with papal permission celebrated the world's first aerial Mass (TIME. May 18), MIVA had acquired a dozen planes, more than 150 automobiles and motorboats which now ply among mission stations in Albania, Lettland, East, West and South Africa, Madagascar, Korea, New Guinea, Brazil and the Solomon Islands. Last week Father Schulte was in Manhattan, full of plans for adding northern Canada to MIVA's territory. During the summer, accompanied by Toronto Pilot Pat Howard, he flew an all-metal Junkers named Santa...
General Dill soon found there was more in his job than fighting Arabs when he was called upon to quiet Dr. Khalil Totas, Principal of the Friends' Mission School, "only American Educational Institution in Palestine." Dr. Totas, having received British military instructions to evacuate the school so that it could be used as a barracks, complained bitterly to U. S. Consul General George Wadsworth at Jerusalem. Said General Dill, promptly putting the matter straight: "There has been a mistake.We only want the school playground to pitch our tents...
...sandspit of San Diego. On Aug. 2, they forded a shallow river among sunburnt hills, discovered a village of unpromising heathens, named it for the feast day of Our Lady of the Angels and pushed on. Few years later the glory of God was attested by Franciscan missions in these towns and for 1,000 miles along the Pacific Coast. The mission of San Gabriel Arcangel out side Los Angeles grew the first wine grapes and oranges ever seen in California...