Word: mott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the Chairman of the International Missionary Council was John R. Mott, who made...
...choosing a new Minister to Egypt, to succeed Senator Willis' friend, J. Morton Howell, the President listened to Senator Swanson (Virginia) and prepared to elevate Franklin Mott Gunther, a "career man" from New York and Virginia and whose 20-year service has embraced France, Nicaragua, Portugal, Brazil, Norway, Britain, Holland, Italy and the Mexican division of the State Department...
Other speakers found other faults, suggested remedies. Said small, earnest Dr. Roy H. Akagi of Japan: "If Christianity is to become a living force to the Japanese people, it must first be Japanized." Said vigorous Dr. John R. Mott: "A synthesis of Eastern & Western relationships must claim all secular agencies as well as our Christian organizations. . . ." Other speakers pointed out that racial prejudice hampered African Missions, that the Church Charities are joined in "common law marriage" to extraneous economic agencies. Said explosive Dr. Sherwood Eddy, Y.M.C.A. Secretary at large for Asia: "The new slogan is not to evangelize...
Sanitary Equipment. James W. Johnson, Manhattan consulting engineer, last week arranged the merger of three sanitary and plumbing supply concerns-the J. L. Mott Co. (factories at Trenton), the Laib Co. (factories at Louisville), and the Columbia Sanitary Mfg. Co. (factories also at Louisville). The J. L. Mott Iron Works, founded in 1828 at Mott Haven, N. Y. (now part of New York City), was the first U. S. company to make sanitary equipment. Portland Cement. Peerless Portland Cement Co. of Detroit and New Egyptian Portland Cement Co. of Port Huron, Mich., have agreed to consolidate; combined assets...
Women told President Coolidge last week what he should do so that posterity might rank his name along with Lincoln's.. The deed essential for such fame was his getting behind the proposed Lucretia Mott Amendment (giving women equal rights with men) and securing its passage by Congress. So said a delegation from the "National Woman's Party, guests at the Summer White House. State laws which "restrict the economic freedom of women" are objectionable, said Miss Gail Laughlin, lawyer of Portland, Me., first vice chairman of the Party. It took men long years of fighting...