Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thunder: "Liberty must be protected by Authority!" Though protesting that he does not aspire to become a Hitler or Mussolini, M. Tardieu warned that "There are rising at the doors of France regimes of mass dictatorships imported from Asia . . . demanding: in France a strong government conscious of her historic mission...
...cash and fines. That "the agents kept up the price of liquor. Their extortions, their free drinks and free meals forced the ordinary customer to pay twice what he should have paid for liquor." That salvation in Manhattan is expensive: "The cost of making converts in the foreign mission field . . . comes to about $260 a head. . . . In wicked New York the average cost of making a convert is placed by the most optimistic statistician at $660, and other experts who have tried to figure it out say that $1,500 would be more nearly the correct figure." That Broadway, "once...
...dinner, since it outlined, no doubt, the slogan policy of the Tories for the next elections. Speaking with studied warmth, he declared that in England lay the last hope of the world for the preservation of Democracy; elsewhere it was in ruins. And it was the sacred mission of the Conservative Party to save Great Britain at all costs from a proletarian dictatorship. Disregarding the obvious point that at the present this shot is aimed at a dummy, since the Labour Party officially adopted the same plank for its platform, one wonders whether or not the Tories might...
...Paul, greatest of missionaries, was responsible to no board of foreign missions. Boldly and zealously he went his own way. Today mission boards still hope for Pauls. They go recruiting for young ones, sometimes in big secular colleges, more often in small denominational institutions. But fewer & fewer young Pauls respond. A report on them issued last week, the final report of the indefatigable Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, declares that young Pauls are fewer because college students today lack religious conviction, are no longer sure that the Christian message is better than any other. Even if their faith...
Contributors to the American Mission to Lepers, which now supports 184 leproseries, own toy pig banks in which they deposit their odd coins. The idea developed 20 years ago when Wilbur Chapman, Kansas farm boy, bought a piglet, named him Pete, raised him to pighood, gave his profit to Leper missions. Last week Mr. Chapman, now a St. Paul electrical engineer, visited Manhattan to permit a firm-willed patrician from Richmond, Va., Mrs. Robert Randolph Harrison, to pin a silver medal on him for his boyhood initiative. Mrs. Harrison during the ceremony wore a little gold pig on a brooch...