Word: mott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spiritual sense. The Archbishop of Canterbury sometimes goes yachting with J. P. Morgan in the Mediterranean, but he does not wield much power outside his own Anglican world. Presiding Bishop Perry of the U. S. Episcopal Church and Presbyterian Moderator McDowell are not international figures. But Dr. John Raleigh Mott is. For his work as an organizer and inspirational leader in foreign missions he is famed from the Oasis of Helwan in Egypt to Herrnhut in Germany. As an active Y. M. C. A. man his influence has been felt from Finland to Jerusalem. Called "this Ulysses of modern missionaries...
Born of sturdy stock in Sullivan County, N. Y. in 1865, John R. Mott grew up in Postville, Iowa. When he was five, he mistook a white-bearded bishop for God. Brought up in piety, he got an encyclopedia from his father for neither drinking, smoking nor gambling until 21. He went to Upper Iowa University at 16, to Cornell at 20. More interested in law than in religion, he changed his mind during his first year at Cornell. Thereafter John R. Mott's work was for Christ. He began Y. M. C. A. work as Cornell vice president...
...Manhattan, the 117-year-old American Bible Society celebrated a century of service to China. Vice President John R. Mott recalled that in 1833 the Society sent $3,000 to Dr. Elijah C. Bridgman, first U. S. Protestant missionary to China, to print scriptures in Chinese. Since then the Society has spent $2,897,383 distributing nearly 70,000,000 volumes of scripture in China...
...strong baritone, put into the record an account of the help the Guardian Group and its stockholders had given to its banks during the Depression. There was $8,400,000 supplied in exchange for slow or undesirable assets in member institutions; $3,595,000 supplied by Charles Stewart Mott, vice president of General Motors, to make up for defalcations in the Union Industrial Bank of Flint; $1,600,00 in credit lent by directors of the Group to carry distress loans of officers and employes; $3,384,000 paid by a group of stockholders to buy 18,800 shares...
Worcester Academy: r.e., Lithwin (Seaver); r.t., Tellier; r.g., Furman; c., Boorum (Murphy); l.g., Carflo; l.t., Griswold; l.e., Foster; q.b., Mott; l.h.b., Anais (Berustein); r.h.b., Alex (Diggins); f.b., Greenberg...