Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confer with the Premiers of France and Italy, Sir John created an impression so unfortunate that Sir Austen Chamberlain K. G., who had been expected, as a onetime Foreign Secretary and half-brother of Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, to felicitate His Majesty's Government on the "mission to Berlin," abruptly thrust the notes for his speech back into his waistcoat pocket and rushed off to the Chamberlain stronghold of Birmingham...
When Mr. Stephens did lose his seat to Bilbo, his old friends, John Nance Garner and Pat Harrison, were afraid that The Man Bilbo would block Senate confirmation of an RFC appointment for Mr. Stephens. They undertook a diplomatic mission to Senator Bilbo...
...single Chinese province of Anhwei, 250 miles remote from Nanking, 3,000,000 Chinese were last week reported starving. "It is distressing to walk the streets these days with misery and Death everywhere," reported George Birch, China Inland Mission worker. "Two-thirds of this area is without food and the remainder is approaching the same condition. I hear such things as five of a family of seven starved to death. A man climbed a hill to cut fuel and fell dead. Women with babies, exhausted and despairing, laid down to die." *The President's adopted son, James Lin, postgraduates...
...airplane accident suddenly introduces a bumbling nobleman and his pretty fiancee. The Eskimo handyman, worried about his boss's sex life, has meantime imported two native women from a distant mission. Then a sealer arrives with the young woman who jilted Dascom Dinsmore two years before. Broad as a snowshoe, the farce finally soars off into fantasy with a big double wedding. First-week audiences clapped their delight at Dennis King's fresh talent for comedy, were likewise appreciative when he took time out to sing a song in his best light opera manner...
...time or another with such old New York names as Auchincloss, Sloane, Leeds, Agnew, Gracie, Varick and Aspinwall, the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church is famed for its sloping auditorium, its fine acoustics, its old gas brackets and reflectors. Instrumental in founding Princeton Theological Seminary, Presbyterian Hospital and many a mission church, this rich old house of God was once called the Cathedral of Presbyterianism...