Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kidnapped 85 miles from Foochow, in Fukien Province, last week while en route to consecrate a new church were aged and ailing Bishop Manuel Prat and Father Alfonso Andres, Spanish Dominicans. "We very much doubt," said a Spanish mission spokesman, "whether our beloved Bishop can possibly survive the rigors of captivity...
...have time to snatch his weapon before they had seized and beaten him into sub-mission," is TIME's description of the capture. "His gun, a .32 automatic, was found in his coat in another room," Father-in-Law Porter said for the Star. He was captured at his father-in-law's house. "One of the detectives threw a flashlight on Burke as he reclined in bed ... he was awakened and (we) took him without any trouble," continued Mr. Hoover's interview...
...Ransom values of U. S. missionaries to Chinese bandits fluctuate widely. Thus the Lutheran Mission at Hankow paid $2,350 plus $1,300 worth of medical supplies last week for Rev. K. N. Tvedt; but Mongolian bandits let Rev. Allie Godfrey Lindholm of the Scandinavian Alliance Mission go cheap for $600. Murdered recently by discharged Chinese servants at Yunnanfu were two Seventh Day Adventlst missionary-wives, Mrs. Victoria Marion Miller & Mrs. Vera Mosebar White...
...Bill" Castle was born in Hawaii in 1878 as a loyal subject of King Kalakaua. His grandfather had come to the Islands from New England with the first mission aries. His father had served the King as Attorney General, later as Hawaiian Minister to the U. S. Young Castle went to Harvard, was graduated in 1900, lingered on at college as an English instructor, as assistant dean in charge of freshmen, as editor of the Graduates' Magazine. When the War came, he went to Washington, opened a Red Cross bureau to relieve prisoners, to find missing men overseas...
...minute was adopted with the understanding that an agreement be reached with Sir Wilfred Grenfell whereby Brooks House will undertake the provision of funds in return for the privilege of selecting four Harvard men who will go a field with the Mission. No definite sum was mentioned but it is probable that the funds now applied to the support of a representative at Robert College. Constantinople, will be diverted to aid the social service work of the Grenfell enterprise...