Word: baptisme
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Nazi propaganda in Spain has never ceased. Last week in Madrid cinema theatres Adolf Hitler was loudly cheered and Neville Chamberlain derisively whistled at when the Nazi film Baptism of Fire was released "against British warmongers." With the fall of France, Germans in & out of uniform went hustling into Spain, where they were seen everywhere last week. Some went to villages behind Gibraltar, possibly to man the big guns covering it, installed by Nazis during the Spanish Civil War. Adolf Hitler also sent the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle to Francisco Franco and waited...
Pacific distances are important to the U. S. Navy. A naval officer who knows them and their meaning better than the lines in his palm is Admiral James Otto Richardson. As a young midshipman, Texas-born "Joe" Richardson got his naval baptism charting the waters around the Philippines; not the least of the qualities which speeded his rise to high command was his thorough knowledge of Pacific oceanography and topography. At 61, homely, unofficious, friendly Joe Richardson is Commander in Chief...
...Four miles of the Delaware River were temporarily closed to shipping, lest passing sailors get a peek at the secret superstructure. Philadelphia police and FBI agents kept tabs on the 35,000 (mostly Navy yard workers, their families, naval personnel) who were admitted to the Yard for the big baptism...
Under lithe, fiery Ambrose Jessup Tomlinson of Cleveland, Tenn., the Church of God of A. J. Tomlinson seceded from the Church of God in 1923, now claims a million communicants in 23 countries. Outsiders know its excitable members as "holy rollers." It "emphasizes salvation, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Spirit, and healing by faith if you have it. Otherwise call a doctor...
...Baptism. "I fear godparents must go; for though they were beautifully conceived, as an institution they are legally and practically powerless, and should not be tempted to make promises which they know they cannot perform...