Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former wars or seeking outlets for trade, for population or even for their own peaceful contributions to the progress of civilization . . . have . . . impatiently reverted to the old belief in the law of the sword or to the fantastic conception that they, and they alone, are chosen to fulfill a mission and that all the others among the billion and a half of human beings in the rest of the world must and shall learn from and be subject to them. "I recognize that these words which I have chosen with deliberation will not prove popular in any nation that chooses...
...Francisco last fortnight, Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa learned he could make a U. S. lecture tour only if accompanied by a doctor or nurse to prevent his spreading trachoma (TIME, Dec. 30), Japan's No. 1 Christian speedily found a suitable attendant. On furlough from the American Baptist Mission in Swatow, Kwangtung, China was Dr. Velva Violet Brown, .a 44-year-old surgeon. Dr. Kagawa and his portly, solicitous companion chartered a plane for Amarillo, Tex. In the following seven days they visited Lubbock. Tex., Norman, Okla., Oklahoma City, Springfield, Mo., Memphis, Indianapolis. Getting used to his routine of eyewash...
Died. Arthur Frederick Sheldon, 67, co-founder of Rotary International, coiner of Rotary's slogan, "He profits most who serves best"; in Mission...
Under the general supervision of Rodman W. Paul '36, vice-president of Brooks House, the new appointees will collaborate principally with the Foreign Student, Social Service Speakers, Mission, and Loan Library Committees...
...church John D. Jr. has been no less generous than his father. A list of Rockefeller donations compiled confidentially for its clients a few years ago by John Price Jones Corp. (professional money-raisers) included such Baptist items as, for 1923, the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society ($5,725,000), the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board ($5,475.000), the American Baptist Home Mission Society ($5,475,000). In 1927 the Northern Baptist General Board of Promotion got $1,300,000. Mr. Rockefeller's growing feelings about interdenominational giving were reflected in his donations to the Baptist general budget. From...