Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome, postulator (advocate) of Mother Seton. In the Papal throne-room they genuflected, presented to His Holiness a petition in 29 volumes, by 150,000 of the U. S. faithful. Cordially, briefly, His Holiness addressed the pilgrims in Italian, thanked them for coming so far on such a pious mission. But he made no direct reference to Mother Seton. Reason: until the case has been fully investigated he can assume no obligation concerning...
...Berlin's Friedrichstrasse railway station a great silent crowd saw off the first German Chancellor ever to visit Paris on an official mission.* As the Warsaw-Paris express pulled out a few strident voices called hopefully, "Alles Gute! Gluckliche Reise!" ("Good luck; Pleasant Journey...
Because of the growing probability that the next Congress for financial reasons will vote to free the Philippines, Secretary Hurley's mission took on large political significance. His purpose will be to collect first-hand material on which President Hoover can act if & when Congress sends an independence bill to the White House. Almost certainly this material will be in the form of a veto ammunition. The Philippines Herald, nationalist sheet, sensed this when it declared: "We would wish that the purpose of this mission be one of inquiry into the necessary details of separation. Yet it might...
...When Dean Pound, himself a widower, was not hard at work at the Commission's headquarters, he courted Mrs. Miller about the hotel and elsewhere. Last week just as moving vans were backing up to the Tower Building and overalled work men were beginning to clean out the Com mission's offices there. Commissioner Pound, aged 60, escorted Mrs. Miller, aged 49, to famed old St. John's Church, made her his second wife. He and his bride sped to New York, sailed for Scotland aboard the S. S. Transylvania. Declared Honeymooner Pound: " I've been working very hard these...
...sale of city property realized $5,,347.40 to the owner after paying $65.20 charges and the agent's commission of 3%. What was the com- mission...