Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John the Baptist...
...complete census follows: Episcopalian, 1096; Jewish, 840; Catholic, 796; Congregational, 473; Presbyterian, 419; Unitarian, 341; Methodist, 315; Protestant (unspecified) 158; Baptist, 147; Christian Science, 75; Lutheran, 70; Christian Faith, 43; Quakers, 27; Reformed Church, 18; Greek Orthodox, 17; Latter Day Saints, 11; Swedenborgian, 7; Ethical Culture, 7; Dutch Reformed, 7; Evangelical Church, 5; Church of Brethren, 6; Community Church, 4; Buddhist, 4; Seventh Day Adventists, Russian Orthodox, Union Church, Hindu, Moslem, two each; Calvary Reformed, Church of God, Free Church, Federated Church, Mennonite, Orthodox, Calvinist, Modern Humanist, Liberal, Buchanan, Albanian Orthodox, Moravian Universalist, Disciples of Christ, Christendom, Pentecostal, one each...
...through college. From his book learning he drew dividends by teaching mathematics and Latin for six years at Aaron Academy, Nicholson High School, in grade schools at Bayou Encent, Anner, Kiln and Wiggins. At this time he was licensed but not ordained as a Southern Baptist minister. And then he got into politics...
Stumpster Bilbo, who stops at no forensic device, is a bad man to have for a political foe. In 1928 he delivered Mississippi to Al Smith 5-to-1, "me a Baptist, a dry and a Ku Klux Klansman," largely by this stratagem: In a Memphis burlesque theatre he announced that during the 1927 flood Herbert Hoover got off a train at Mound Bayou, Miss. and danced on the station platform with a Negro woman. George Akerson, Hoover's aide-de-camp, had a hard time refuting this canard without offending either white or black voters. "It was just...
Married. Rev. Dr. Thomas Todhunter Shields, 61, Dry Fundamentalist pastor of Toronto's Jarvis Street Baptist Church (TIME, Sept. 17): and Leota Alyne Griffin, 34, his secretary, cousin of his first wife; in Toronto...