Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imaginative Lou Hill's career was strong-arming on a Chicago newspaper route with the late Dion O'Banion, who was later killed in his flower shop, supposedly by that former Brooklynite, Al Capone. In 1923, a fugitive from justice, Lou Hill staggered into a Springfield mission, heard a sermon which converted him. He says he returned to Chicago to give himself up but District Attorney Robert E. Crowe, impressed, turned him loose...
...Australia) met by proxy under the tent of the League of Nations at Geneva. Theirs was not the task of interpreting past short crops (which have been notably lacking) but of trying to bring about more short crops in the future. Two years ago they met on a similar mission in London, went home empty handed because the U. S. declared it could do nothing about restricting production...
...Scamp Shot. A hint of Japan's real intentions in China exploded last week in Peiping's Grand Hotel des Wagon-Lits. An assassin shot and gravely wounded that thoroughgoing scamp General Chang Ching-yao, onetime military governor of Hunan Province. Police announced that Chang's mission was to set up a monarchy in northern China with Japanese money. Monarch was to be hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi. now puppet chief of puppet Manchukuo. Chang is "one of the most notoriously disreputable of all China's war-lords." For killing a U. S. missionary...
...news of bygone weeks, herewith sequels from last week's news: ¶ To the resignation of Author Pearl Sydenstricker Buck from Presbyterian foreign mission work in answer to charges of heresy (TIME, May 8); the resignation of Mrs. Henry V. K. Gillmore from the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, commendation of Mrs. Buck by the Middle Atlantic Conference of Congregational and Christian Churches...
...wise precaution. U. S. missionaries in the invaded territory south of Jehol kept the wires hot with reports of Japanese bombing, destruction and invasion of U. S. mission property. In Peiping Japanese Chargé d' Affaires S. Nakayama announced last week Japan's willingness to make reparations. It had already made a cash settlement for the bombing of a French Catholic Mission south of the Wall ($600, silver) and had paid rental for the occupation by Japanese troops of the U. S. Methodist Mission at Shanhaikwan ($22, gold...