Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...territory or protect its people, but instead begs the League for assistance. If this is not disgrace then what is disgrace in this world? . . . Also it is to be regretted that the League Commission spent so much of its time sight-seeing instead of devoting itself to its mission...
...with a staff of only 77, the other 91 workers being summarily recalled (TIME, July 3). Ten domestic offices were discontinued and 145 employes let out. The headquarters staff in Washington was cut to 450. And last week the bureau got a new chief and a new mission...
...British George V. Throughout the trial last week all the accused petty officers showed themselves ignorant of world affairs, fanatically intent on just one thing: the resurgence of Japan which they described as "Great Asianism. . . . Everywhere the Asiatic races are oppressed by the whites. ... It is Japan's mission to form a great Asiatic confederation and liberate Asia...
...mental irresponsibility'' which saved Blanca de Saulles from the charge of killing her husband, to the "mental incompetence'' of Jackson Barnett. rich Creek, whose oil royalties the Government tried to protect from Gypsey Oil Co., from his wife and from the Baptist Home Mission.* Dr. Jelliffe told how Banker Harriman had been examined. The banker knew the names of rivers in Europe and capitals of States, could describe certain birds, flowers and fish, could give the names of battles in the Civil War-all things learned in his boyhood. But recent events the banker could date...
...owned by Christians, nevertheless dared not let themselves be completely outdone in anti-Christian fury. While the Press squirmed, a committee petitioned fat King Fuad to "save Moslems from the evil intent of the missionaries'' and in particular discontinue tax exemption to missionary institutions, withdraw subsidies for mission schools. One hundred and fifty thousand pounds would be saved annually for State schools and welfare work. The petition was concurred in by the present rector of Al Azhar University Sheikh Ahmedi el Zaharawi, who promptly gave ?200 to an anti-mission fund. This reporters took to mean that...