Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fellow Tycoon Etienne Allard and fourth was a distinguished young member of the Belgian nobility, Count Philippe d'Arschot. Escorted by Ambassador May and members of his staff, they had come to carry out an ancient rite, to which Belgium, of all nations, now alone adheres. Their sole mission was to inform the President in person that Leopold III now sits on the throne of Belgium...
...Government he met a young U. S. engineer named Herbert Hoover. Some years later, during the World War, he was Herbert Hoover's chief coadjutor in distributing Belgian relief. After the War his contacts with the U. S. multiplied. He was a member of the Belgian debt mission to the U. S., a member of the committee that formulated the Young Plan. During Depression he called often and quietly on his old friend Herbert Hoover at the White House...
...department store executive (Abraham & Straus, Inc. in Brooklyn, Mably & Carew in Cincinnati), as its executive secretary. The Offering is working with posters, stickers, pamphlets, nationwide publicity, and a tabloid Hold the Line News. No diocesan or parish quotas are set. First 100% offering reported: from St. Andrew's Mission (48 communicants), Washington Court House. Ohio, oldtime home of Harry Micajah Daugherty...
...Navy explained with considerable embarrassment that the damage consisted solely of a burned-out engine bearing, that the Macon could navigate if necessary on only two of her eight engines. More significant was the Navy's explanation of the Maeon's "destruction." Given a scouting mission to locate an "enemy" aircraft-carrier, she had died a heroine while spotting the Grey Fleet for the Blue Fleet's gunmen. After her "destruction" she became "a new ship" ("ZRS-6"), spotted everything in sight on another scouting mission...
Last year Ibn Saud sent a mission to Yemen to settle the boundary dispute peaceably. Yahya the Imam pleaded illness as an excuse for not seeing them, then clapped the delegation into jail and sent an armed force into Asir under the former Idrissi...