Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy. Few weeks ago "Italian atrocities in Ethiopia" were big journalistic stuff, especially when they were supposed to have been committed against the Red Cross. Last week equally big news in England was eye-witness testimony by Ebenezer Ralph Hooper, M. D., a member of the American Ambulance Mission in Ethiopia. Speaking at Leeds, terse Dr. Hooper said that Benito Mussolini had been right in claiming that the Ethiopian high command deliberately misused the Red Cross for purposes of war. Original offender was Emperor Haile Selassie's redoubtable General Ras Desta Demtu, according to Dr. Hooper, who declared...
...Mexican" (Peter Lorre), to track down a German agent en route to Arabia, Ashenden proceeds with more pluck than perspicacity. Nonetheless, having inadvertently permitted the Hairless Mexican to push a harmless tourist (Percy Marmont) over a cliff, Ashenden and a beautiful blonde English spy (Madeleine Carroll) finally discharge their mission with the help of bombing planes...
...scattered Mexican garrisons had been easy to dispose of, but in February 1836, Mexico's Dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna crossed the Rio Grande with an army of 6,000, a threat of death to every American in Texas. Against him, in the Alamo mission at San Antonio, Col. William Travis and Col. James Bowie stood with 184 men, including Davy Crockett and a dozen buckskin-clad Tennesseans. At tiny Washington on the Brazos River, 160 miles to the northeast, Sam Houston and some 60 citizens were drawing up Texas' declaration of independence. At Goliad, 140 miles...
...Southern Baptist work aggregated $26,888,567, an increase of 10% over the year before. Baptist ministerial training was not in such good shape. Last available statistics showed that 64% of Southern Baptist ministers had neither college nor seminary training; only 14% had both. In two nations Baptist mission aries had had their troubles: 1) in Italy where the state had all but expropriated 15 acres of Baptist land; 2) in Rumania where the Government had detained one missionary 48 hours in a "vile dungeon." To Secretary of State Hull in Washington went Baptist protests against both "injustices." The Southern...
...send the authorized version of his latest G. & S. operetta, Patience, on a U. S. tour. It was also his notion to send ahead, as unconscious pressagent, the notorious original of Patience's esthete hero, Oscar Wilde. Carte put the scheme to Oscar as a lecture tour, a mission to preach beauty to the barbarians. Oscar bit. Authors Lewis & Smith have chronicled his U. S. peregrinations against a lavishly illustrated contemporary background. Result is a big (462-page) sprightly blonde of a book, as meaty and hearty as an oldtime burlesque queen. When Oscar Wilde landed in Manhattan...