Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Service Committee, Cullison Cady '35 will take the post formerly occupied by M. S. Knowles '34 as chairman on the Foreign Student Committee, while J. M. Estabrook '34 and Knowles will share the duties formerly carried on by W. I. Tucker '33 as chairman of the speakers Committee. The Mission Committee will be headed by Winthrop Lee '36, who succeeds F. C. Welch '33. A. B. Martin 1G will assume the duties of chairman of the Law School Committee...
...Premier MacDonald's very vague speech on the results of his mission Colonel Wedgwood remarked: "It reminded me gentlemen, of Robert Browning's Sordello, a poem which contained only two intelligible lines, the first and the last...
Michigan Sportsman. Jan Adrian ("Jack") Van Coevering, 33, is a short, blond, blue-eyed missionary. His gospel is the mental and physical healing power of Nature, his mission the preserving and popularizing of Michigan's great outdoors. The Detroit Free Press gave him a weekly column for a pulpit. Now William C. Sowell has given him a whole magazine. In the first (March) issue of The Michigan Sportsman Editor Van Coevering foresees Depression ending with "America's mills again . . . operating at feverish heat, fiendish efficiency." Then men & women, if they are not to be reduced to "pill...
...Naval Hospital where he lives with his wife and daughter Ernestine, 21. Last week they were hunting for a comfortable residence close to Washington. When they find it, they will move in a lot of antique Polish furniture which the Surgeon General picked up while on a Naval mission to Brazil...
...wandering Americans whose mission of "doing Europe," has been somewhat complicated by a sudden shortage of funds to meet hotel bills, seek escape by disguising themselves as two Italian organ grinders. Young Gretchen, a burgomaster's daughter, is suspected of wanting to elope in order to avoid marriage with the Governor of Zeeland. She is consequently imprisoned in a haunted mill. The two Americans, ConKidder and Kid Conner, rescue her. This unexpected disappearance from the mill occasions the offering of a large reward. A telegram is at once dispatched to the Hague summoning Sherlock Holmes, containing the declaration "money...