Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese advisers, financial, economic and military, to replace other foreign advisers, particularly the German Military Mission which has been training Chinese Government soldiers for years...
...member of the Corporation and a director of the Alumni Association, in both of which positions he worked capably and tirelessly. His amazing grasp of both international politics and finance was used with great success after the War when President Wilson appointed him financial adviser to the American Mission at the Paris Peace Conference; and still more strikingly when in 1924 he unraveled the financial tangle in Hungary as High Commissioner appointed by the League...
Upon the entrance of the United States into the World War, Mr. Smith left his law practice to serve as captain in the quartermaster corps under General Charles J. Dawes. He was later appointed counsel for the Treasury and financial adviser to the American Mission at the Paris Peace Conference...
Smart as he looks, the knife-nosed Emperor, having received Il Duce's ultimatum demanding salutes, indemnities and establishment of a neutral zone, sent down to the frontier of Italian Somaliland an Abyssinian mission with a Swedish and a Belgian military observer "to ensure fairness in establishing the neutral zone," ignored Il Duce's demands for salutes, indemnities
...ringlets. His hoary eyebrows are the size of mustaches. And a wild mop of grey hair tops the benign face of an Irish comedian. Neither the tippler of legend nor the inflexible patriarch of the Bible, Noah's Noah is the simplest of men, worried about his mission but uncomfortably embarrassed each time he has to bother God for further instructions. Full of faith, he needs it all when, with his wife, three sons, three orphaned maidens and the animal kingdom, he sets out upon the mighty, storm-tossed waters...