Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prayer-meetings during the week at Houston, to beseech their God to prevent the Smith nomination. After the nomination and the Smith telegram denouncing Prohibition, the anti-Smith movement was given somewhat more definite form. Preachermen, including Bishop James Cannon Jr. (Methodist Episcopal) and the Rev. Arthur J. Barton (Baptist), called for a Dry rally at Asheville, N. C., next week and for a "National Jacksonian Democratic Convention" on Aug. 7 at Richmond, Va. Observers doubted that these gatherings, if held, would become any more significant than the proposed national convention of the Prohibition Party, which was called for next...
Elected. Arthur Merriman Harris, vice president of the World Sunday School Association; to be president of the Northern Baptist convention...
...Capitol lawn in 1894, was nominated last week for President of the U. S. by the Interracial Independent Political Party. He is a Nordic. His running mate (candidate for Vice President) is a Negro: Simon P. W. Drew, president of the National Ministers' Alliance, pastor of the Cosmopolitan Baptist Institutional Church, president of a real estate company...
Roach Straton, Manhattan Baptist. He included in this propaganda birth control literature and nude pictures. Dr. Straton asked Atheist Smith to stop mailing him such things. When Mr. Smith failed to do so, Dr. Straton haled him into court. Once before the judges, Atheist Smith sought to make it appear that he had been trying to interest Preacher Straton in atheism, because he "wanted to convert the leader of the opposition." The nude pictures were intended to appeal to "his aesthetic side if he had any." Atheist Smith pointed out that it would be quite natural for a clergyman...
...early '90's, Mr. Rockefeller put his philanthropies on a wholesale scale. He had always been a devout Baptist, a Sunday school teacher since he was 20. When a comparatively poor man, in 1870, he gave $20,000 to help build the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland. His first huge gift was for a Baptist-affiliated institution of learning?the University of Chicago (founded 1892). He plunged into the giving business as systematically as he had into oil. He trained John D. Jr. to succeed him in both. And then, in 1911,** he entered the business of pleasure...