Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presidency of Atlanta Trust Co., discovered his mistake. In 1928 he was chosen Governor of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank. He lives out on fashionable Peachtree Street in a rambling two-story house on a five-acre lot not far from Washington Seminary, famed girls' school. A good Baptist, he helped sponsor Billy Sunday's Atlanta meetings. A member of East Lake Country Club, he golfs with Robert Tyre Jones Sr. there and also at Highlands, N. C., where both spend the summers. The Black score is in the high...
...good subject for parlor and dinner table discussions. Few people knew what it actually was or ' where literary Humanism left off and religious Humanism began. Nor did Humanism's expounders get together and codify their beliefs for popular enlightenment. Rev. Charles Francis Potter, onetime Baptist, Unitarian and Universalist. hired Steinway Hall in Manhattan (TIME. Oct. 21, 1929) and still preaches therein, but Professor Irving Babbitt taught something different, and Dr. Paul Elmer More on religious grounds denied them both. Last week, for the first time, the religious Humanists were on common ground. After discussing many questions (by letter...
...shared life in a shared world." Its adherents say that it will: "Affirm life rather than deny it ... seek to elicit the possibilities of life, not flee from it ... establish the conditions of a satisfactory life for all, not merely for the few." Most Humanists come from Unitarian. Universalist, Baptist and Congregationalist churches. In recent years 60 Unitarian ministers have embraced Humanism. Their church was dismayed but could do nothing, its own creed being far from stringent. There are Humanist groups in Manhattan. Hollywood, Berkeley, Calif., Sioux City and Minneapolis. They hope soon to form a national organization. The Minneapolis...
...Little Chillun! (by Hall Johnson; Robert Rockmore, producer). Jim, son and assistant preacher to Pastor Jones of Hope Baptist Church (colored), is drawn from his good wife Ella by the flashing eyes of Sulamai, a loose-hipped young woman from Toomer's Bottom, across the tracks. With Sulamai he attends a meeting of the New Day Pilgrims, a strange sect who worship the moon out in the cypress swamps with four-part harmony and orgiastic dancing. Sulamai seems to have an irresistible appeal for the minor clergy. Writhing in ecstasy among the half-naked New Day Pilgrims, she also...
...Schnitzler 3L and R. E. Kopp 3L, speakers for the Brandies Club, defending the side of the First Baptist Church, argued that a trust did not arise upon the delivery of an insurance policy to purported trustees, and defended an application of general principles behind the rule against perpetuities, in contrast to a strict application of the rule...