Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overlooked in the uproar of the somewhat over-punctual celebration of Mr. McNutt's arrival in Washington was his official mission: to tell the President that: 1) Philippine sentiment for immediate independence is declining, 2) that Major General Douglas MacArthur is "doing wonders" with the Philippine Army, and 3) that U. S. residents of the Philippines resent paying income taxes...
...churches have establishments in China worth millions of dollars. Caught unawares by the current war, mission boards have been operating on an emergency basis, have been unable to formulate long-term policies. In general: 1) their missionaries are remaining at their posts or moving to areas where they may be especially useful; 2) their chief problems involve transportation and maintaining medical relief stations: 3) tHeir future problem is the incalculable one of restoring wrecked establishments. For their emergency needs, at least half-a-dozen of the principal U. S. churches have launched money-raising campaigns...
Similarly, a drive for $25,000 to be raised on U. S. campuses was begun last fortnight by the International Student Service, founded in 1919 to aid starving students in Europe. There are now 30,000 such in China. Apart from what U. S. mission boards are doing, China hopes to keep its higher learning aglow by establishing four university centres inland, away from war zones, which most students may attend for nothing. Two such centres have already been started, at Changsha in Hunan Province, and Sian in Shensi...
...Klein as they watched the crowd mill past the Wallace's Partner cottage on the dusty Iowa State fair grounds. "There is something terribly pathetic to me in the faces of these farm women," "Uncle" Henry said. "They are so tired and worn and spiritless. There is a mission for someone: to bring material comforts, help and inspiration to the woman who labors on the farm." That was in 1907 and Horace Klein was advertising manager of a nondescript magazine called the Farmer's Wife. Its publisher was Edward A. Webb who also ran The Farmer, a poultry...
...Arts and Sciences before he arrived at Town Hall in 1930. The League, founded by a group of women suffragists, had for 40 years provided a platform for civic reformers, outstanding Americans from William Jennings Bryan to Will Rogers, and music concerts. But George Denny conceived a bigger mission for Town Hall. With a zealot's belief that revival of the old New England town meeting was needed to make democracy work, he began in 1935 to put on a weekly town meeting demonstration in Town Hall for a nation-wide radio audience. Soon a good part...