Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debt to the U. S. out of its seven-year closet. Last week. 37-year-old Conservative M.P. Robert John Graham Boothby, who five months ago accused President Roosevelt of precipitating the current stock-market decline, appealed to the Commons to send a "really authoritative mission" to Washington to negotiate a War debt settlement, "if necessary to restore economic prosperity...
...commissions ranging up to $15,000 have given Augustus John an old stone manor and a bright pink studio in Hampshire, another studio in Wales. John offspring include Son Teddy, a successful professional boxer, Daughter Poppet, who married well, and Son Casper, a member of the Air Ministry Mission recently...
...Pacific. The Blacks were about to invade the U. S. with two fleets, and it was the job of General Andrews' 187 combat planes and 3,000 men "to concentrate first; to reach out and attack targets in advance of the ground arms, with the general mission of weakening and disorganizing the enemy to the limit of our ability before he comes into contact with these ground forces...
Said Bishop Manning: "I am wholly opposed to the raising of funds for the Church or its work by means of gambling games or gambling devices, and I trust that no parish or mission in this diocese will permit or countenance such action." The Bishop declared he was equally opposed to legalizing "the gambling spirit," even for charity. The annual convention of his diocese applauded, voted unanimously to notify the State constitutional convention of their disapproval of gambling...
...particularly appropriate time that President Conant has set forth at some length his opinions on the subject of propaganda. If ever there were an educational mission for Harvard it is in teaching her sons not to believe everything that everybody tells them. Today the nation is beset on all sides by people and interests of every shade and color, bent on selling them something--be it an idea for the economic salvation of the nation or a simple old-fashioned gold brick. The appeal to people's emotions is often so subtly made that decisions of momentous importance...