Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hotfooting it from Capitol Hill to the Agriculture Department on an astonishing political mission, Minnesota's Congressman Walter H. Judd and Nebraska's Arthur L. Miller last week tracked down Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. They had an urgent message: G.O.P. farm state Congressmen had just convened in emergency caucus and decided that either Benson must quit his job or 20 to. 25 members of the caucus would be defeated this fall as part of the mounting farm protest against Benson's policies...
...early this fall. But Polaris' progress has been indisputable. And if it keeps its promise, it will do one thing that is overdue: it will speed the Navy beyond its traditional surface task force role-a role all but obsolete in the missile age-into a global underwater mission that will reassert and make meaningful the need for control of the seas...
...Memorial Institute Gold Award for the pontiff's "outstanding contribution to the betterment of race relations and human welfare." (1956 winner: D wight D. Eisenhower.) Said His Holiness: "It is not to our humble person this award is directed, but to truth and charity, whose defense is our mission...
...Augustine, 61, who spent 30 years as a Jesuit in active mission work around the world before joining the Camaldolites eleven years ago. is so devoted to the solitary life that he has special permission to remain in his cell without emerging, even for Mass, more than three times a year. Dom Augustine trudged the Manhattan streets a while in his ankle-length white robe and said: "This is my first look at the outside world in ten years. Well, it's the same old world-very noisy, very crowded. You don't have enough time to pray...
Relentlessly, he kept up his fight for Tidewater. In 1948 he got Mission Corp. to form a new holding company, called Mission Development Co., as an ingenious vehicle to swallow up Tidewater stock as Mission Corp. acquired it. He then had Pacific Western buy 127,777 shares of Tidewater's common stock from a Dutch brokerage house, giving him control of 35% of Tidewater's outstanding stock. By 1951 Getty had won numerical control of Tidewater, and in 1953 he elected all but one of his directors to the board. Tidewater had been sitting for years...