Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have ever kicked out a good advertiser. Nonetheless. N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc. "B. A. I. S. 1869"† national agency with headquarters in Philadelphia, last week pointedly dropped the account of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. Wilfred Washington Fry, Ayer son-in-law president of the firm, is a Baptist Y. M. C. A. man, ardent Prohibitionist. He bore with Canada Dry so long as its ads went no further than to picture suggestively the cork of a gin bottle lying beside bottles of its sparkling beverages. Unreconciled to Repeal, Mr. Fry on learning that Canada Dry would soon...
Mail trucks clatter by carrying pouches for New Orleans, Butte, Little Rock, Winnetka, Miami, Ottumwa, and Dallas. Letters from angry fathers, distraught mothers, improvident sons, enamored daughters; letters from salesmen in shiny blue serge suits, executives in State Street, swathy Armenians, and pious Baptist priests...
...Missions, published last winter by the Rockefeller-sponsored Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, gave a true picture of Christianity's status in the Orient. To confirm that picture, the Inquiry last week supplied them with Volume V of its source books-a combined volume of facts on Baptist, Congregational, Dutch Reformed, Episcopalian, Methodist and Presbyterian missions in China...
...electric chair, to the "mental irresponsibility'' which saved Blanca de Saulles from the charge of killing her husband, to the "mental incompetence'' of Jackson Barnett. rich Creek, whose oil royalties the Government tried to protect from Gypsey Oil Co., from his wife and from the Baptist Home Mission.* Dr. Jelliffe told how Banker Harriman had been examined. The banker knew the names of rivers in Europe and capitals of States, could describe certain birds, flowers and fish, could give the names of battles in the Civil War-all things learned in his boyhood. But recent events...
...East Savannah, Georgia's First African Baptist Church, Marion Moultrie uprose to begin the service by which he would be ordained a minister. Beside the altar flickering oil lamps lighted the church's storm-cast gloom. Standing below the pulpit, prayer book in hand. Marion Moultrie began solemnly to intone: "We are gathered here this afternoon . . ." Crash! The church was glutted with sound and light. Marion Moultrie swayed, fell dead in the arms of a deacon. . . The blackamoors screamed, then set up such a wailing as they had never before achieved. Police came, took away the body with...