Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duty of those of us here and of the people of the United States as a whole . . . to do nothing and to say nothing that will put impediments in the way of the successful carrying out of [M. Laval's] great mission...
...Bourbon kings was "His Most Catholic Majesty." Under Spain's First Republic (1873-75) Mother Church was not molested. Last week's great question: Should the Second Republic now disestablish the Holy Apostolic Catholic Church in Spain, expel her Jesuits and bar her priests from their cherished mission as educators of Catholic youth...
Delegates to the conference heard Secretary Frederick Luke Wiseman of the Home Mission Department, Wesleyan Methodist Church report on increased Methodist membership in Great Britain and Ireland. "Communists," he said, "have been converted and are now preaching the gospel they sought to destroy, which is a further indication of Methodist progress." He pointed also to progress in the movement for union of all the branches of Methodism in England. Delegates applauded loudly when Bishop John Monroe Moore of Dallas, Tex., said that the Northern and Southern branches in the U. S. "cannot be kept apart much longer. . . . The causes...
...paid a visit to the Business School over the weekend. Sir Francis is chairman of a committee appointed by Lord Percy to study the question of education for salesmanship and marketing, and is also president of the Incorporated Industrial Management Association. He is in this country on a secret mission as a representative of the British government and is believed to be interested primarily in reviving England's foreign trade...
Lord Trenchard does know all about airplanes. He was until last week Marshal of the Royal Air Force. In 1912 he taught himself to fly within a week. During the War he organized and commanded the secret air squadrons whose mission was to wreak frightfulness on German cities in retaliation for Zeppelin raids over Britain, a dangerous duty little reported in the British Press. In the army leather-lunged Lord Trenchard was known as "Boom," because of his reputed ability to turn an entire brigade into a column of fours without the aid of a megaphone or relayed commands. Last...