Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whether it be Cabinet officers, a United States Senator, a Methodist Bishop, a Baptist evangelist, a Presbyterian doctor of divinity, the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Pope of Rome, I do not propose to allow any man to declare, without my indignant protest, that the stalwart, God-fearing men and praying handmaidens of God who fought for prohibition on their knees as well as at the ballot box are given to the habitual practice of misrepresentation...
...history rather favors idiots. Napoleon, Luther, John the Baptist, He-siod--they were all idiots. If they had been sane careful bankers and butchers and bakers of buns they would long since have been adumbrated by the shadows of the passing years. They were idiots, and are remembered. None of them complained of his life work, nor did any of them try to convince an Ohio legislature that he was a conformist, a complacent mind, pedestrian on well worn paths...
Captain John Baptist Noel electrified a vast audience which packed the Union Living Room last night when he told a tale of meticulous planning of unceasing toll, and of men without fear in connection with the expedition to climb Mount Everest in 1924 when Irvine and Mallory died within 600 feet of their goal...
...hard fight and reach the top of the mountain. Shortly afterward he tried again to reach the summit and 800 feet from his goal the swirling snow hid him from those far below who were watching with powerful telescopes and he has never been seen since. Captain John Baptist Noel who was with the expedition will give a lecture at 8 o'clock next Thursday evening in the Union Living Room which will be illustrated with moving pictures showing the ill fated expedition in the Himalayas...
...Established in 1841 as the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. It is the wealthiest Baptist congregation in the world. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. is honorary president of its Bible Class, of which Charles Evans Hughes was once leader. Dr. William Herbert Perry Faunce, President of Brown University, founded the class. (Both Hughes and Rockefeller attended Brown. Hughes' son went to Brown [1909], but Rockefeller's eldest son is at Princeton...