Word: ballington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ballington Booth, imperious second son of the imperious Booths, broke with father William and Bramwell and founded the Volunteers of America, which is much smaller than the army, is devoted to philanthropy and is not a church...
...when General William Booth was on a tour abroad, his eldest son, Chief of Staff Bramwell Booth, ordered a general shuffling of Commissioners. In what has been called a game of musical chairs, he recalled his younger brother, Commissioner Ballington Booth, from his post in the U.S. In protest Ballington and his wife resigned and began to set up a rival organization called Volunteers of America. Evangeline was rushed to New York to talk him out of it, but Ballington was adamant. When he called a meeting, of New York Army members to try to convert them to his Volunteers...
Died. General Ballington Booth, 83, founder of Volunteers of America, brother of Salvation Army's famed General Evangeline Booth; after long illness; in Blue Point...