Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spirit of Locarno." After the Allies had beaten Germany and imposed the Treaty of Versailles, the House of Chamberlain took up its chosen international mission under Elder Son Austen Chamberlain who became Foreign Secretary in 1924. Few days later the British Sirdar in Egypt, Sir Lee Stack, was assassinated and Mr. Chamberlain traded a settlement of that outrage for which Britain was paid $2,500,000 by Egypt. The influence of Son Austen as Lord Privy Seal and Leader in the House of Commons was decisive in achieving exactly what Father Joseph had advocated and died devoutly wishing: the Irish...
...clients. At the same time he proudly made another announcement: that 166,167 WPAsters had left the rolls in July (a 6.1% monthly turnover), of whom 40,000 gave as their reason that they were taking private jobs. "These facts." asserted Mr. Williams, "indicate that WPA is fulfilling its mission of supplying temporary employment in periods of emergency rather than 'careers,' as has frequently been charged...
Sold Out. Viscountess Runciman and other women of the British Mission left Prague for London this week just ahead of the staggering news that Britain and France demanded Czechoslovakia yield part of the Sudetenland to Germany with out even a plebiscite. "Impossible ! That can't be true!" Government officials cried as press wires first broke the news, later confirmed to President Benes by the British and French Ministers. In London, the shock "cracked" Czechoslovak Minister Jan Masaryk, son of the late founder of Czechoslovakia, and he took his break down to bed. In Paris, the Czech Minister Stefan Osusky...
Canon Cardijn has repeatedly summed up JOC's program: "Every Jocist has a Divine mission from God, second only to that of the priest, to bring the whole world to Christ." French-speaking workers in New Hampshire formed the first Jocist group in the U. S. A Catholic college student of Glendale, L. I., Vincent J. Ferrari, is launching the movement on a wider front, under the supervision of an able Paulist father, Rev. Paul Ward. Four Jocist study groups have been started. Jocist Ferrari, no worker himself, last week appeared minded to modify the thoroughly radical temper...
Before two members of the Dies House Committee investigating Un-American Activities who went to investigate in Manhattan last week, appeared a small, excitable Italian in grey shirt and black string tie. Girolamo Valenti's mission is to keep Benito Mussolini out of the U. S. He is chairman of the Italian Anti-Fascist Committee, was editor of La Stampa Libra, now defunct. Mr. Valenti told the investigators a startling story about how Mussolini is roping in U. S. school children...