Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officer ever to visit the Philippines and his fellow-travelers , found the gaunt face of Speaker of the House Byrns one vast crinkly mass of smiles; Representative Bertrand Snell, the dour New Yorker who leads what is left of the House Republicans, seemed positively cheerful. The fact that his mission had its serious diplomatic side, to show the Orient that the U. S. eagle still has a protective wing over the Philippines,* was not evident in irrepressibly democratic Mr. Garner's farewell remarks...
...Knows What Kings?" John Buchan's useful mission is to redeem the Governor-Generalship from the slough of Canadian distaste into which it sank under his predecessor, the Earl of Bessborough. If Canadians are to go on paying $43,799 a year to an official from overseas whose legal status is "the Person of the King in Canada," then they want to get something for their money. Admirers of the first Baron Tweedsmuir, while generous in their tributes to John Buchan's intellectual gifts, single out his extreme flair for effective flattery, conveyed with canny Scottish tact...
Describing through the use of actual picture slides the hardships and privations encountered by the Esquimaux of Labrador in their daily life, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, world famous founder and promoter of the Grenfell Mission, explained last night to a large audience in Phillips Brooks House the nature and extent of difficulties faced by doctors and nurses who devote their lives to humanitarian work among the natives...
Sire Wilfred Grenfell will speak tonight at 8.00 o'clock in the Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House. His lecture will be accompanied by slides which will include all phases of life on the Labrador coast as well as activities of the Grenfell Mission. A collection will be taken up which will be given to the school and hospital at Cartwright for the support of which the Harvard Grenfell Association is doing its best to raise money...
...lecture, to which admission will be free, is given under the auspices of the Harvard Grenfell Association, a branch of the Mission Committee of the Phillips Brooks House...