Word: missions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conant House contains two buildings, one of seven stories and one of five, overlooking central London, it stands in a lot on which stood a mission hall, ten tenement houses, and a laundry before German air raids cleared the ground...
Ivanov said he had set up an intelligence service for Cyril Black, formerly at the U.S. political mission in Sofia and now a history professor at Princeton. Ivanov said he furnished Black with information about things like "the people's dissatisfaction with the government [and] what factories were producing what materials...
...John Bull has an aversion to public funerals, he had best overcome it. "In some countries, [they] are unrivaled as occasions in which to cultivate acquaintances. How many an interesting political connection was first conceived by a certain foreign head of a mission in a convulsive handshake in a funeral cortege and cemented by giving him a lift home in his car from the ceremony...
Moffett testified that when he went to Washington on his mission in 1941, he persuaded F.D.R. to help Aramco in its troubles with Ibn Saud. Moffett introduced a 1941 memo from President Roosevelt to Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, which said: "Will you tell the British I hope they can take care of the King of Saudi Arabia-this is a little far afield...
...Reverend Father Superior of the Cowley Fathers' Monastery on Memorial Drive stated that the present day monk spends much of his time engaged in social welfare and mission work...