Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From both coasts came hostile editorial comment on the Mayoral junket. "In the country as a whole," observed the New York Herald Tribune, "there will be many to hope that His Honor will succeed in his mission; but it is a sad commentary on American justice that the freedom of anyone should hinge on a 'stunt...
...feet, and the only people I ever had to look up to, always. We had considerable difficulties with the language at first. . . . Tribal custom called for the removal of the four front teeth of all adults. Consequently, they lisp almost everything they say." Soon, nevertheless, Dr. Giffen erected a mission, organized a school, translated two gospels and baptized 600 lisping Shullaks...
Only four times has Dr. Giffen visited the U. S. since he settled in the Sudan. In 1922 he was elected moderator of his church's general assembly. So unused had he become to the ways of U. S. Presbyterians that once, at a mission conference in Pittsburgh, he arose to give the benediction, got halfway through it before he realized he was speaking Arabic...
Died. Rev. John Walter Vinson, 50, Presbyterian missionary in China since 1907, brother of President Robert Ernest Vinson of Western Reserve University; stabbed and decapitated by bandits who had kidnapped him after looting the mission and the town of Wangjiagieh...
Harking back to President Hoover's early suggestion that seaborne food supplies be immunized during war, "Admiral" Gardiner concluded thus: "The most humanitarian of pacific intentions led President Hoover into exhibiting the abysmal ignorance of why navies are maintained and of how they are used to accomplish their major mission. . . . Acceptance of his suggestion that would have made for bigger and bloodier wars. Yet such is the psychology that is not only controlling our internal naval policy but dictating its external subordination to those of foreign naval powers. It has been necessary to say what has been said to have...