Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Grenfell Committee is opening its third annual campaign today in collaboration with the Mission Committee of Phillips Brooks House to raise a fund of $3000 for the Labrador Mission of Sir Wilfred Grenfell and to enlist students for summer work at the mission...
Engaged. Eleanor Gould, Manhattan socialite, granddaughter of George Jay Gould; and William Nafew Haskell 3rd, whose father. Major General Haskell. headed the American Relief Mission to Russia...
...White Plains for a political rally. Last November she canceled an engagement to speak in Albany, retired to her country house. It was reported that she had received threatening messages from "Reds." Last week she addressed a meeting in Manhattan of the American McAll Association, affiliate of La Mission Populaire Evangelique de France, a Protestant mission group. Headlined the New York Times: MRS. SHEPARD LISTS DANGERS TO YOUTH. Said...
...waiters wear monocles, race-proud Magyars have hatched many a dark plot to put young Archduke Otto on the vacant throne in Buda across the Danube. But Archduke Otto is no Magyar; he is a Habsburg. To find a more appropriate ruler for his people was the self-appointed mission of a young Magyar fencing-master named Toth. Like the Finns, Esthonians, Turks and Tartars, the Magyars are part Asiatic, are believed by some to be re- lated to the Japanese. Fencing-Master Toth chose for his king the brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, the smiling, near-sighted Prince...
...name as donor, at the other end is a doctor's satchel. The front is "dedicated to the memory of the family physician." The back is "in memory of those [wives] who keep the home fires burning while the doctor is away on his mission of mercy...