Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promotion), he will fly the Akron to the coast as planned before the ship's accident, and will probably cover the trip for the Press. He will not be relieved by recently-appointed Commander Alger H. Dressel, who may accompany him as a passenger, until completion of the mission...
Speer dresses often in black. She gardens at Lakeville, Conn., collects Chinese furniture, curios. Much-traveled, both on her husband's mission work and her own, Mrs. Speer eschews society for her good deeds and her home...
Stiffkey (pronounced "Stewky") is in Norfolk. Beyond officiating at matins and evensong on Sundays, bland, white-haired Dr. Davidson* spent little time there. His avowed mission was in London where he devoted himself to saving errant girls. "We believe," ran the formal charge, "that the Rev. Harold F. Davidson had a right and duty to rescue maidens from a life of sin, but that in the process he should not have: "Systematically misbehaved himself - "Kissed and hugged Barbara Harris in a Chinese restaurant in Bloomsbury "Permitted 17-year-old Barbara Harris to sleep in his bed - "Been guilty of immoral...
Escorted by the Rev. W. H. Tipton of Jefferson City, Tenn., Teacher Rose Marlowe of Williamsburg, Ky. went to inspect the partly destroyed Shanghai Southern Baptist Mission School. Seated in a parked car while the Rev. Tipton was walking among the ruins, Miss Marlowe who does not speak Japanese was addressed by two Japanese armbanders...
This year the 25,000 inhabitants along the Labrador coast under the jurisdiction of the mission have suffered the worst winter since 1890 when Sir Wilfred first visited needy Eskimos and Indians along the coast in his little 60-foot schooner. In this first year, working with only a few assistants, Grenfell treated over 900 cases in a single summer. In 1893 Harvard men purchased and manned a small ship for the mission and it is the aim of the committee to purchase a schooner this year and eventually have three Harvard students command...