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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gypsy Smith's evangelistic method is simple. He gets the cockles of the audiences' hearts working emotionally with a few hymns and one of his famed talks ("From Gypsy Tent to-Pulpit" or "Three Years with the Boys in France"); then he asks all who "intelligently feel the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heart in Mouth | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

*Long ago, before Gypsy Sr. was converted, before Gypsy Jr. was born, the father of Gypsy Sr. attended an evangelistic meeting, fell to the floor unconscious, leaped to his feet a few minutes later with a shout: "I am converted."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heart in Mouth | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

Henry Mauris Robinson, California lawyer-banker: "General Electric Co. last week elected me a director, pursuant to its plan of having each region of the U. S. represented on its board of directors. Thus once more I am associated in vast fiscal enterprise with Owen D. Young, Chairman of General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

"Omitting Chicago and all the Middle West, I last week completed my second tour of the U. S. Sailing for France from Manhattan, I said: 'I have seen mixed peoples in many parts of the world, and they are never superior types. Your country has shown both its strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

The core of this book* is a diary. In the core are seeds: "In the 41 years I have been here I have convicted persons enough to fill a passenger train of 61 coaches. . . . I have destroyed 160 tons of obscene literature." "The place for a woman's body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

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