Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is an outside chance for the Republicans to drive home the Methodist-Baptist bone-dry wedge and split off a piece or two of the Solid South, the man to swing the sledge is saturnine Campbell Bascom Slemp, President Coolidge's onetime (1923-25) secretary, the Republican National Committeeman from Virginia. He it is who knows the ways, light and dark, of Southern Republicans. He it was who, last week, immediately after the Anti-Smith Democrats had said their say for Hoover at Asheville, N. C. (see p. 9), was appointed a "special assistant" by National Republican Chairman...
...Asheville conference was held just the same. Some 300 Dry, determined clergy and laymen attended. Bishop Cannon's colleague, Baptist Barton, a solid, ruddy gentleman, took the chair after Bishop Cannon had called the audience to order. It was announced that the conferees were to be officially known as "Anti-Smith Democrats." Republicans were not invited. The speech-making pictured Nominee Smith as a diabolical visitation upon the Democracy, of which it must and would be purged. The Anti-Smith Democrats promised to swing North Carolina and Florida out of the Solid South for Nominee Hoover. They predicted...
...largest-looming effort to split the South was yet to come, and did come, last week at Asheville,-N. C.-the "nonclerical" Dry conference called by Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Dr. Arthur J. Barton. Georgia Baptist...
Married. Sonia Alexandra Frey, daughter of John Alexander Frey, Director of the Baptist Theological Seminary of Riga, Latvia, to Niven Busch, Jr., onetime associate editor of TIME, in Manhattan...
...Baptists to the number of 7,000 drew together in Toronto for the Fourth Quinquennial Congress of the Baptist World Alliance, a purely advisory organization. They discussed industrial problems, militarism, the spiritual rebuilding of China, missionary work, the unfoldings of the Baptist faith in other countries. No serious disputes or differences marked the genial and progressive activities of the congress...