Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast the Islands off. But few Army men were surprised when General Douglas MacArthur, ending a long and brilliant term as U. S. Chief of Staff, packed his elegant duffel and sailed to Manila as the Commonwealth's Military Adviser (TIME, Sept. 30). General Mac Arthur's mission is to set up in the next two years a military establishment, costing 16,000,000 pesos ($8,000,000) and enrolling 19,000 men, which will try to keep the Philippine Republic independent after the Stars-&- Stripes are hauled down July...
...wish to take this opportunity to thank you for the very excellent and unprejudiced manner in which you presented the Chinese aviation picture in TIME, Oct. 14. I personally appreciated very much your recognition of the efforts of the American Aviation Mission in China. When you mentioned the group, as a "devoted group," you were correct, as these young men did a wonderful job under extremely adverse circumstances. Living as we did in the interior of China, the mails from home were looked forward to with the greatest impatience. I think that every member of the group was a subscriber...
...Colonel Jouett, famed chief of the Aviation Mission, thanks for hearty words...
Said Vittorio Emanuele III, opening a new section of the University of Rome and engaging the fortunes of his Royal House: "In every phase of its history Rome has carried out its mission of civilization. Today Italy is following along the same path, more than ever united in a spontaneous effort to faith and will! The Nation is moved by justice and necessity in an action which the exigencies of Italy's life, Italy's security and Italy's future impose upon...
...Antonio's Catholic Archbishop Arthur Jerome Drossaerts, Mexico's exiled Apostolic Delegate Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, and a hearse bearing a coffin containing a heap of old bones. Into a fresh grave went the bones, good Catholic dust, buried 200 years ago in a San Antonio mission cemetery, lately dug up in good preservation during excavation for a new post office...