Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sacred Mission." President of the Assembly was that famed little Czechoslovak, Dr. Eduard Benes, but he could not leave home, having been elected President of his Republic (TIME, Dec. 30). The Assembly therefore had to elect a President last week, chose Premier-Professor Paul van Zeeland of Belgium, who played an important backstairs role in promoting the Hoare-Laval deal which nearly made peace between Italy and Ethiopia last winter...
...balance of power in Africa-and concluded in Benito Mussolini's nearest approach to a dove-cooing vein: "Italy will consider it an honor to inform the League of Nations of the progress achieved in her work of civilizing Ethiopia. . . . Italy views this work as a sacred mission and proposes to carry it out according to the principles of the League Covenant...
Died. Charles Rohlfs, 83, originator of ''Mission style" furniture, husband and onetime collaborator of the late, famed Mystery Writer Anna Katharine Green (The Leavenworth Case); after a long illness; in Buffalo...
When the earthquake sound effects are over, the MacDonald sound effects begin again. Having rendered two night club ditties, "San Francisco," a mission anthem and part of the role of Marguerite in Faust, she is yodeling Nearer, My God, To Thee in a tent settlement when Blackie rediscovers her, kneels down to talk to God. A shrewd compendium of romance and catastrophe, with emphasis on the latter, skilfully administered by Director Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke, San Francisco is an excellent example of Hollywood's ability to make yesterday's headlines as exciting as today's. Good shot...
...deed done by assassin Prince Felix Youssoupov and friends. Last week Augur (Vladimir Poliakoff) famed London special writer for the New York Times, cabled that "a daring airman, whose nationality cannot be disclosed for the present, has flown over the North Sea at a dizzy height. His mission was to use specially sensitized plates to photograph the movements of the German fleet executed in the presence of Hitler. For it was highly important to learn the exact state of preparedness of the German naval forces and even more, the new methods their chiefs intend to apply in case of real...