Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conservative Party Dictator Gómez was convinced that all Protestants were members of the Liberal Party and hence his mortal enemies. Just before Gómez was overthrown by Rojas in 1953, his government signed an agreement with the Vatican cutting two-thirds of the country into 18 mission territories in which only Catholic churches and schools could operate. Rojas carried on where his predecessor left off, suggesting that Protestants and Communists were indistinguishable from one another and shutting down close to 30 Protestant churches in the mission territories...
...caravans of indignant white citizens even then were converging on Little Rock from all over Arkansas. And Little Rock stores', declared the governor, were selling out of knives, "mostly to Negro youths." Announced Faubus: "Units of the National Guard have been, and are now being, mobilized with the mission to maintain or restore the peace and good order of this community...
...Work in 71 missions, 6,640 mission stations, some 4,000 schools, 350 hospitals and 16 leprosaria...
...barbarous nightmare of half-savage Russian medicine, with leeches on his famous nose and mad medics trying to thump the devil out of him. Gogol had a strange power over the Russian mind. Says Biographer Magarshack in a just summary: "This conviction . . . that it was his transcendental mission to save Russia, an idea that was completely divorced from reality . . . was the tragedy of his life." Yet, in a sense, though Gogol could not save his own reason, he came close to saving Russia's. Hoping to uphold a dark orthodox authority, Gogol kindled flickering gleams of liberty. Those...
Died. Richard Frazer Allen, 66, vice chairman and longtime (1919-22, 1932-45) official of the American Red Cross, Marshall Plan mission chief of Yugoslavia (1951-52), U.S. foreign-relief program administrator (1947-48), general manager of Manhattan's men's haberdashers Rogers Peet Co. (1923-31); after long illness; in Geneva, Switzerland...