Word: missions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cheered by 12,000 brownshirts in Berlin's vast Sportspalast, Governor Kube shouted: "Through the person of Adolf Hitler-whose mission is divine-every German has become more self-confident and valuable. It is wrong to speak in the plural of Nazi leaders. Our Nazi movement is monarchistic and knows only one leader-Adolf Hitler...
University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wis.) Rufus Cutler Dawes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Dean Guy Stanton Ford of the University of Minnesota Graduate School . . . . . . Litt.D. Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Secretary of Labor Perkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Henry Charles Taylor, member of the Laymen's Foreign Mission Inquiry. . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...Senate Public Lands Committee was hunting official corruption. Scandal was in the air and Senator Walsh was out to prove by concrete facts an ugly hook-up between the oil business and the U. S. Government. Last week the Senate Banking & Currency Committee had no such tangible mission. It was probing the whole intricate subject of private banking, with the House of Morgan as Exhibit A. Against that firm was no specific charge of wrongdoing. Official corruption was not even hinted. Unquestioned was the personal honesty of its 20 partners. Yet the House of Morgan and all it stood...
...Harper Sibley, after a big-game hunting trip in Africa, joined Mrs. Sibley for the International Missionary Conference in Jerusalem, to which both were Episcopal delegates. In 1931 they traveled in India, Burma, China and Japan as Episcopal members of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, Mr. Sibley an observer of agricultural conditions. Mrs. Sibley studying the lives of Oriental women. One incident of their trip was brought up for discussion last week by The Living Church (high-church weekly). Mrs. Sibley had attended the All-India Women's Conference and gone with 400 delegates on a picnic...
...Columbus, Ohio last week met 1,500 U. S. Presbyterians in their annual General Assembly. Fundamentalists had come bringing threats, chief among them Dr. John Gresham Machen of Philadelphia who last month stirred up the row leading to the resignation of Author Pearl Sydenstricker Buck as a mission teacher in China (TIME, May 8). Since then Dr. Machen had flayed Mrs. Buck for an "antiChristian propagandist,'' excoriated the Presbyterian Foreign Missions board for its "Yes-&-No" attitude, called everybody names including even much-revered Board Secretary Robert Elliott Speer whom, by implication, he called "dishonest" and "evasive...