Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press had been fully instructed, but the general public had some difficulty in getting into New York's newest art rooms last week, the American Folk Art Gallery. The A. F. A. G.'s mission, say its promoters, is to exhibit and sell American Primitives. Connected with the enterprise as an adviser is little, round Holger Cahill, onetime press-agent and at present consultant for the Newark Museum...
...shield, designed in 1878 by the late Augustus Saint-Gaudens, has as supporters two nude children (male). On complaints from a group of citizens led by Rev. Michael A. Gearin, Mayor James Michael Curley requested last week that the supporters of the shield graven on the facade of the Mission Hill Public Library should have their pudenda shrouded in granite ribbons. Whether all reproductions of the shield should be similarly ribboned then became a hot argument in Boston...
Black constables shouting cockney rushed among the people, trying to get them indoors. The first impact struck the Jesuit mission on the shorefront, lifted it, sifted it through its invisible hands like a pack of cards. There perished ten priests. They had come a long way to die: from St. Louis, from Buffalo, Cleveland. Cincinnati, Superior and Racine (Wis.), Reading (Pa.), from Ireland, from Spain...
That was the signal for Publisher Macfadden to offer $10,000 in prizes for a new name to take the place of Physical Culture. Said he: "The mission of Physical Culture has been to make people healthier and happier. And there is absolutely no change in these commendable purposes. But we are endeavoring to reach a larger number of readers by making our presentation more interesting. We are sugar-coating the 'pill,' if we may so far condescend as to make such a reference to Physical Culture...
...crowd Secretary Hurley delivered a message, explained his mission: "I bring! you the greetings and best wishes of the President of the United States. ... By his direction I have come here to secure first-hand information concerning the political, educational, social and economic conditions which now prevail in the islands. ... I shall converse with the people themselves. . . . On the facts established the Administration will base its future policy...