Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the R. M. S. Queen Mary docked in New York last week, one of her distinguished passengers was W. T. Morgan, news editor of the London Star. Editor Morgan's mission was a carefully planned, 48-hour sightseeing tour of New York City. He had planned it carefully so as to omit nothing of interest. If Editor Morgan's preconception of New York was something between a community playground and an outsized booby-house, he found little to surprise...
...ambulance last spring the persons handling the $2700 were not more careful about the use to which the supplies were put, no matter how sincere and correct their intentions. Students of all political beliefs gave generously their money and time to what was described as a non-partisan, humanitarian mission. A mistake was made, although a small one, in allowing the ambulance in a demonstration which was at least open to misinterpretation...
...Japanese naval base at Pratus Shoals, 200 mi. southeast of Hong Kong. Each pilot, gunner and observer was insured for $10,000, the policies payable to the flyers' families. Off to an unknown base in southern China they flew. By week's end no word of their mission had been received...
Last Sunday, Fray Junipero's anniversary, the cause was informally opened with mass celebrated at San Carlos Mission by its present pastor, Father Michael O'Connell. Father Augustine spoke on Fray Junipero's holy life, argued his sanctity. A wreath was laid on his refurbished grave by Excelentisima Maria Antonia Field, descendant of California grandees who was given her title in 1931 by King Alfonso XIII for her work in preserving Spanish California's historical buildings and records. Fray Junipero's cell, restored to look as it did when he prayed, read his missal...
...reasons after publishing his Capitalism and Its Culture, and was paid a year's salary to stay away from Yale. "We must not," trumpeted Professor Davis, as the delegates arrived, "we cannot betray the organized workers of America by fighting the C. I. O. It is the historic mission of the A. F. of T. to support every progressive and successful labor movement. How can we possibly ignore the C. I. O. and be true to our heritage...