Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sing Sing for crimes ranging from narcotics addiction to armed robbery. Out on parole in 1961, Jesse went West and straight -even to the extent of becoming a lay minister in the All Nations Church of God in San Francisco. Last week, in the city's crime-rife Mission district, a new James gang was riding high-training school dropouts, finding jobs for the unemployed, and putting money in the bank rather than making withdrawals at gunpoint...
Known as the "Mission Rebels in Action," the new James boys are currently 600 strong and reflect the district's ethnic mixture of Negroes, Filipinos, Samoans, Maltese, Indians and Spanish Americans. Before Jesse came on the scene, most of the whilom rebels were headed for the standard non-careers of the neighborhood-petty crime, gang fights or debilitating welfare living...
...question of whether or not the boycott will succeed, but rather one of how long it will take. They will continue picketing until Giumarra relents or until the grape season is over. If the strike continues, they will be picketing again next year. They have a driving sense of mission. "If Giumarra goes, one million farm workers will be organized in five years," says one organizer...
...this sphere. In striking contrast to the dismal record of governmental bureaucracy is the progress of the religious organizations; and though I am by no means a religious man, I am proud of what these Americans are doing. I speak with special feeling of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission Hospital here in Saigon. In this institution American doctors are bringing ever more sophisticated medical care to Vietnamese who only yesterday were being treated by traditional herbals or even acupuncture. In this dreary war, where it seems that the welfare of the Vietnamese individual is so often forgotten in the rush...
Somewhat less is known about the fallen angels than those who still reside in heaven, but Davidson nonetheless provides some background on 103 of Satan's allies. Focalor, a mighty duke who commands 30 legions of demonic spirits, has the special mission of sinking ships of war. Mammon is hell's ambassador to England. Rabdos can stop planets in their course. One of the least fortunate of devils is Azza, who is eternally destined to be suspended between heaven and earth as punishment for having sexual intercourse with mortal women...