Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clothes which are collected will be distributed to the Red Cross, the Grenfell Mission, and to specially recommended needy families in Cambridge. Magazines and books go to Boston settlement houses and hospitals...
...sliding bronze front door where bas relief dollars two feet wide greet them. A storage and assay depot as well as a mint, the new building began last week to receive some $400,000,000 in gold and silver from the smoke-stained old San Francisco mint at Fifth & Mission. The two storage vaults, 48 x 78 and 28 x 52 ft., are equipped with triple-locked doors, wired with microphones so a central guard room hears every sound in the vaults. Trucks enter the mint through an anteroom guarded by a pair of steel portcullis doors of which only...
...Norman Hezekiah Davis, went to the reconvened Sugar sessions of the ill-fated World Economic Conference of 1933 in London last month, he announced his intentions with such a neat sous-entendu as would make a French Foreign Officer preen (TIME, April 19). Said he: "This is the sweetest [mission] I have ever had. . . . If we could only reach one agreement ... it would be important in this crucial period of world history to Democracy . . . showing that 22 nations can sit down and reach some agreement...
...same time, Ray Dennett '36, Graduate secretary, announced that the Mission Committee has decided to give the money which it has earned during the past few years to Labrador for use in the purchase of a motor for a boat. The money was partly earned in lecture fees and amounted to something over...
...foreign money is invested in that country, and owing to tax immunities the Egyptian Government is deprived of what it considered a large legitimate income. The U. S. has nearly $15,000,000 invested there, represented by the American University of Cairo, a hospital, mission schools and such companies as General Motors and Socony-Vacuum...