Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barnstorming the East last winter, in well-publicized concord, were the presidents of the Northern and Southern Baptist branches (TIME, Jan. 25). In Rochester. N. Y. a banquet was planned for them. By unhappy chance the banquet chairman was Dr. James E. Rose. Negro moderator of the Rochester Baptist Association. Learning of this. Southern Baptist President William Joseph McGlothlin excused himself regretfully. He was there not only personally, he explained, but as the representative of several million Southern Baptists...
...graduated in 1894. Brooks became Baylor's president in 1902, Neff its board president in 1903. Both worked for peace, the one as organizer of Texas' first State Peace Congress in 1907, the other as chairman of the Texas League to Enforce Peace. Both became presidents of Texas Baptist Conventions. Lawyer Neff waited until his old friend could sign no more diplomas. Then he went away. well aware that Baylor's presidency would soon be empty, perhaps also aware that he would be asked to fill...
...trip with his wife Fania Marinoff to the Bahamas, where he saw an orgiastic revival meeting of black Holy Jumpers. Sophisticate Van Vechten wondered what Huysmans would have thought of such goings-on. Black Priscilla, maid at his hotel, had no such complicated thoughts: "I'm a Baptist. ... I don't hold by those jumpers. The females jump, and the males jump after them...
Only increase: Northern Baptist...
Biggest decrease: Methodist Episcopal, South: $6,140,845 or 13.7%. Next biggest: Moravian, North, $87,565 or 13.3%. Third biggest: Baptist, Southern, $4,848,128 or 12.3%. All other decreases were less than...