Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What was called pressure," read the report, "was no more than advice or persuasion. That persuasion did not change the Chamber's opinions which were changed by other causes, notably by advices received from a mission sent to India by the Chamber. . . . The conversations at the dinner were evidently of an informal nature...
...neglects to keep the necessary firm grip on his skittish character. He falls ridiculously in love, squanders his money on a grandiose scheme, and finally meets an appropriate but not altogether tragic fate. His author's verdict on him is stern but not unkindly: "It was his mission in life to father all forms of progress and development, and he had left behind him desolation in one form or another wherever he had gone. He was ignorant and therefore innocent; a warrior in the cause for human emancipation even were the result to prove meaningless and destructive...
...Cherbourg when he left for America, Hanfstaengl answered to reporters' queries concerning the purpose of his trip, that "I am a Harvard Alumnus who is going to rejoin his fellow alumni. I have no mission and no interest except to revisit cherished places and friends...
...Jackson Barnett and his wife went to Washington. His wife's lawyer was a smart young Kansan named Harold McGugin. The Secretary of the Interior, Albert Bacon Fall, obligingly agreed to let Jackson Barnett give half a million dollars in Liberty Bonds to the Baptist Home Mission Society and another half million to Mrs. Barnett. Of the latter sum $135,000 was alleged to have gone to Lawyer McGugin...
...grocers, seamstresses, shoemakers, came in the first night to deposit savings of $2,020 which later were kept in the bank's two tiny leather-covered chests. A mutual savings institution for the poor and downtrodden, Bowery Savings was heavy with the smell of Sunday School and the mission society...