Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irish liked their last Minister from the U. S., a tall, hard-eyed Montana Baptist named William Wallace McDowell who, after two weeks on the job, dropped dead of a heart attack (TIME, April 16, 1934). Last week the new U. S. Minister to the Irish Free State, Alvin Mansfield Owsley, set out for Dublin Castle to present his credentials, not to King George's representative, Governor General Donal Buckley, but to President Eamon de Valera...
Those who came to see records smashed were disappointed. Yale's slim Keith Spalding Brown, who holds the world's indoor pole-vaulting record, was outsoared by Southern California's William Graber in a vault-off. Sam Allen of Oklahoma Baptist came nearest to setting a world mark. Over the 120-yd. high hurdles two reserve and one regular timer caught him at 14.1 sec., a tenth of a second better than the record. Unfortunately for Allen, the other two regular timers averaged...
...Detroit last week Rev. J. Frank Norris, blatant Baptist lately called from Fort Worth. Tex. (TIME, Jan. 14), began to preach his doctrines of damnation in a tent which he claims is the nation's largest. From a tent pitched nearby came the raucous blare of the Curtis Fashion Plate Circus. Preacher Norris indignantly prayed God to put a stop to this disturbance...
...this raid and for impersonating an officer, Baptist Eskridge was arrested last week. To his intense wrath, his arrester was Orange's Police Chief Ed O'Reilly, a friend whom he had baptized into his church. Though the charges were dropped, Baptist Eskridge brooded. Other friends said he drove furiously around Orange all one night. Next day Police Chief O'Reilly was standing on a street corner. An automobile whizzed by. From it barked a shotgun. Orange's police chief fell dead...
...posse armed with machine guns, tear gas and sawed-off shotguns caught up with big Baptist Eskridge 80 miles east of Orange. Jailed in Louisiana, he stormed defiantly against the "enemies" who accused him of murder...