Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montevideo under the same handicap which bound him at the London Monetary & Economic Conference (TIME, June 19). On Montevideo's agenda, as on London's, were the major problems of currency and tariffs. Because President Roosevelt remains cheerfully opposed to negotiating these problems, Mr. Hull's mission at Montevideo was to carry out what Mr. Roosevelt has called his "good neighbor policy." This Secretary Hull did for several days before the Conference opened by going about Montevideo in an ordinary business suit and calling on the always cutaway-clad Latin-American delegates without previously announcing his arrival...
...Soviet Union in America" none other than that dramatic victim of amnesia, Col. Raymond Robins who wandered off among the mountains of North Carolina while en route to visit President Hoover (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932, et seq.). In Russia, where the Colonel headed a U. S. Red Cross mission in bloody 1917 and which he revisited on Red May Day 1933, Raymond Robins is known as a man of phenomenal memory, able to recall in minute detail his conversations with Nikolai Lenin and the events in Leningrad (then Petrograd) leading up to the creation of the Soviet Union...
Distribution. Having helped big National Distillers into the saddle for the supply stampede, alert Mason Day turned his attention to the next important phase of the new industry: Distribution. Under his deft hand Mission Dry Corp.. nation-wide sellers of orange, lemon and grapefruit juice, with 1,700 jobbers' outlets and a sales organization throughout the land, has been recapitalized and staffed up. ready to move whiskeys and whatnot from warehouses via retailers to sideboards as none of the distillers or importers except perhaps Schenley is yet prepared to do. After the stampede is well begun...
...possibility of Jonah swallowing the whale was increased by the prospect of Jean Paul's getting another 1,000,000 shares of Tide Water Associated from Standard Oil of New Jersey. Standard Oil does not own the stock. It is held by Mission Securities Corp. which bought it in 1930 and still owes Standard $15 per share on the purchase. If Standard takes it back and makes a deal with Jean Paul, Jonah will have nearly 40% of his whale safely inside...
...WANTED, Young man between twenty-four and thirtyfour, expert scavenger, for a party. Must be tall, personable, poised, and above all quick witted. Locality, Boston. Box 362." "YOUNG LADY, 28, who, stationed in a lonely mission station in the jungles of India, has not seen a white man to talk with in a year, would welcome correspondence with a man of 30 or over, interested in books, music, folks and real living, who is as lonely as she is, 'Teddy.' " "YOUNG man, 22, isolated from all congenial companions, desires correspondence with young man interested in literature and music...