Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Couriers. As dawn broke over the airport at Victoria, B. C. one day last week two swift Army pursuit planes roared into the air, flew eastward on an impressive mission. The leader, Lieut. Irvin A. Woodring, sole survivor of the Army's famed "Three Musketeers" flying team (TIME, May 5), carried a despatch case containing Japanese Emperor Hirohito's ratification of the London Naval Treaty. The document had been speeded across the Pacific by the steamer Hikawa Maru, 12 hr. ahead of schedule, had to sail out of New York aboard the Leviathan four days later in order...
...Australia-withstood all assaults. Last week Australians went wild with joy when their own idol, Wing Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith, landed his Avro Avian Southern Cross Jr. at Port Darwin ten days after leaving Heston Airdrome, north of London. Apart from the glamour of Kingsford-Smith's mission-going home after his trans-Atlantic flight to marry Mary Powell of Melbourne-the race was full of human interest. Of three others who essayed the route within the month, Capt. F. R. Matthews crashed between Bangkok and Singapore, finally reached Australia safe, sound but slowly...
...Rintelen did great damage to the German cause?there is no doubt about it! He went to America on a purely economic mission, but preferred to foment strikes?and spent a great deal of money doing so. The rest of the money von Rintelen took with him was taken from him by David Lamar, known as 'the Wolf of Wall Street,* who emptied his pockets in short order. Bombs were manufactured and placed on allied ships, but only one ever exploded as far as is known...
...While on an official mission for international disarmament," said Senator de Brouckere impressively, "I became convinced that the Mussolini government is preparing for war on both sides of the Albanian border as well as along the Alps. The German nationalists (see p. 23), would not behave as they are doing if they did not feel themselves supported by the Fascists in Rome...
...preacher can equal his combination of simplicity and polish. This he gets by working 10 to 14 hours at a sermon. As a student in Union Theological Seminary he worked 14 hours a day. Besides his regular course, he took philosophy at Columbia. He also conducted a Bowery Mission, sometimes preaching nine times a Sunday to bums and toughs who needed strong, honest medicine. And he supported himself financially. Result: collapse, melancholia, gloom. It was, in evangelical idiom, the hand of God, for in later years thousands were to be rescued from despair by his sympathy. At least...