Word: missions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last February, Washington sent slight, straight-talking Banker Joseph Dodge, of Detroit, to help MacArthur get the program started. Last week Troubleshooter Dodge was packing to go home, his mission accomplished. In a busy three months he had persuaded Premier Shigeru Yoshida's government to balance its budget (for the first time since 1931) and set up a realistic yen rate (360 to $1 U.S.). In return for the national belt-tightening that this signified, the Japanese would receive U.S. aid (around $4,000,000 in 1949) along self-helping ECA lines...
...Dodge mission revealed some of Washington's long-range thinking-a Marshall plan for Asia in which Japan might serve as the industrial workshop for a goods-hungry continent. Japanese production might help wean Asia from Red domination. State's blueprint also called for a simplified occupation, a garrison of troops for police duty only and advisory economic experts...
Charles IV sent José Jaudenes Nebot, a comisario de los ejércitos, or army quartermaster, to Washington on a diplomatic mission. There he met and married British Aristocrat Mathilde Stoughton Fletcher. They returned to Spain in 1812, and Jose died that year. Mathilde followed 24 years later. To their children they left an enormous U.S. estate. Remittances were sent from the States for 25 years, then stopped. Why, no one quite knew...
...purposeful young women pounded energetically on typewriters. But the bald, cheerful man who presided over this well-ordered confusion last week wore a clerical collar. From his command post in an old brownstone mansion near London's Victoria Station, the Rev. Frank Cecil Tyler was directing the "Mission to London"-the biggest evangelical drive the Church of England had ever held in a single diocese...
British Roman Catholics are also making an intensive drive for the lost and strayed. Under the leadership of tall, scholarly Father John Carmel Heenan, 43, superior of the Catholic Missionary Society, mission teams are paying flying visits to 1,700 Catholic parishes in England and Wales. In each of them missionaries stay from one to three weeks, visiting every Catholic in the area, holding church services twice daily. Father Heenan advises his missionaries never to complain to parishioners about lack of attendance. Says he: "A church that is half empty is half full...