Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metropolitan (archbishop) of Thyatiera, the Com-mission recommended to both churches a set of resolutions to the following effect...
...complete as it appears. Already, among the nations which have no personal interest in the Indian struggle, signs can be detected of a polite scepticism toward Gandhi. Much of the trip was of the kind occasioned by an exciting spectacle, rather than by a genuine interest in his mission. And, as he himself predicted, the Round Table Conference was a failure...
...Charles Evans Hughes was out of reach on the Supreme Court. Henry Prather Fletcher, shrewd diplomat, refused to serve unless, it was reported, he was made chairman of the delegation. No less unwilling were Republican Senators to absent themselves from their legislative duties to go on a diplomatic mission on the eve of an important political campaign. The President's inability to round up a top-notch delegation was in some quarters ascribed to a general foreboding that the conference would not succeed...
About two years ago while seeking an opening for placing a loan application in a local bank I asked a Mr. Mackey, New Accounts manager, which banker was in the best humor for an approach. In determining from me the exact purpose of my mission Mackey asked if I would submit collateral and my answer was that I had, for the benefit of the business concerned, some building & loan shares. He most graciously advised me that, in his opinion, anyone who would keep their cash in building & loan and then impose upon their banker for commercial loans should have their...
...veto, a bill to legalize parimutuel betting, Sports Gallagher & Dwyer last spring formulated plans for a track to compete with Hialeah. They bought a disused dog-track at Coral Gables, got Frank J. Bruen, onetime Hialeah general manager, to run it for them. When the State Racing Com-mission met last fortnight, it cut Hialeah's customary racing season of 45 days to 36, gave the new track a non-conflicting schedule of 37 days, starting on Dec. 26 before the Hialeah season and resuming after it from Feb. 22 to March 19. Indignant because the new track...