Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last May the Louisiana Legislature convened in the new $5,000,000, 33-story Capitol at Baton Rouge for its regular 60-day biennial session. Down from Washington as State boss popped Senator Huey Pierce Long to see that things were started according to his will. His mission concluded in three days, Senator Long went back to Washington to resume his national duties. Thereupon the Legislature promptly fell into a do-nothing deadlock which lasted more than a month...
...required ''night howl" by yelping: "I have been presented to the Royalty of Europe, and I could not remember their names and told them so. I cannot remember the terrible names of your officers, and so I shall just call you brother dogs." Remembering the Yellow Dogs' mission, he added: "I assure you I shall not forget my obligations to the underdog...
...occupation to another. Some "jungle" inhabitants are college graduates, may even be sociologists in search of statistics. Such a bloodhound in bum's clothing was Author Thomas Minehan. Disguising himself with apparently complete success, he spent two years' vacations traveling in boxcars, weekending in jungles, standing in mission breadlines, indefatigably taking notes. The result was the first book of its kind on the besprizorniye (wild children...
...Fair in Chicago, are the only two chapel cars in all U. S. railroading. Descendant of ST. ANTHONY which was in use 25 years ago, ST. PETER was converted from an ordinary sleeper at a cost of $50.000 by the Catholic Church Extension Society, ablest of Catholic home mission organizations. Eight years ago it was lent, later given to Bishop William Joseph Hafey of Raleigh, N. C. He in turn presented it to the "Mission Band'' headed by Father Murphy. Because only 9,000 of North Carolina's 3,000,000 population are Roman Catholics, Father Murphy...
...corners of the earth depends no more upon the zeal of individual missionaries than it does upon continuous money-giving by pious folk at home. In the past few years money-giving among U. S. Protestant sects has suffered an ungodly decline. Last week the problem of missions and money made news throughout two groups, one strongly conservative, one strongly liberal. ¶The Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions was founded so that Fundamentalists could give money to send out Fundamentalist missionaries. Last month the Presbyterian General Assembly voted to discipline the upstart Board (TIME, June 11). Last week...