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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee is only able to put on record the fact that the mission of information confided to its president must be considered as fulfilled. It notes equally that if the appeal which was addressed on March 3 to the Italian and Ethiopian Governments has received answers giving rise to hopes of prompt cessation of hostilities, these hopes must for the moment be abandoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Diplomacy Widow | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...Rowan is now a 79-year-old retired colonel who lives quietly in California with nothing much more than a medal he received in 1922 to remind him of his feat. He may be surprised, in this screen play by Gene Fowler and W. P. Lipscomb, to learn his mission was to deliver a mysterious sealed letter; that he was aided by a swashbuckling ex-sergeant of Marines (Wallace Beery) and the lovely daughter (Barbara Stanwyck) of a Cuban patriot; that his principal antagonist was an international spy of in determinate nationality (Alan Hale); and that he was rescued from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Died. Right Rev. Dr. John McKim, 83, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Missionary District of North Tokyo, Japan for 42 years; in Honolulu. When the disastrous Tokyo earthquake of 1923 destroyed most of his church buildings and equipment, he cabled to Manhattan headquarters the phrase now hallowed in mission circles: "All gone but faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 13, 1936 | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

Whether or not that mission has its own church I do not know, but in appreciation of your factual correctness I am sending this information for your files...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1936 | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...Britain's 2,000 Chaldean Catholics, whose mission was founded in 1917, hold services in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, have no definite plans for a church of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1936 | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

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