Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawings from the Platt collection are of early modern and late modern origin, and are from the Italian, French, English, and German schools. Among the more important works in the exhibition are "Nude Studies" by Tintoretto, from the De Nicolo collection; "Death of the Baptist", "Rent on the Flight", "Landscape", and "A Hermit, Reading", all by Guercino; drawings for ceiling decorations by Tiepolo; "Head" by Piazetta, and "Nude Studies", by Degas. "Le Vieux Charron", "Nude" by Rodin, "Angel with a Trumpet" by Blake; and a "Study of an Indian Girl" by Kolbe...
Louisiana observers remarked: 1) that Baptist Governor Long, engaged in tussling with Lieut. Governor Paul Cyr over his job (see p. 13), might win Catholic sympathy by a tactful gesture in the direction of complaining Mgr. Gassier; 2) that Dr. Uhler (and three others) won a libel suit a year ago against one Kemble Kenneth Kennedy, 29, friend and protege of Governor Long who had published an obscene, yawping edition of the University Whangdoodle, calling Dr. Uhler a narcotic addict and a lecher. For this Protege Kennedy was sentenced to a year in jail, was at once reprieved by Governor...
Voice of Labor. When President Green, Labor's diplomat, a pillar of Baptist conservatism, addressed the convention, Labor's hackles were indeed rising. In a preliminary meeting the Voice of Labor had assumed a surprisingly threatening tone: "Some of us have been wondering whether the present industrial order is to be a success or a failure. No social order is secure where wealth flows at such a rate into the hands of the few away from the many. . . . We will be in favor of having the United States Government take it away through taxation and distribute...
Last week Major General Everson had finished up his militia job and the likelihood of his going to Hell was about to be materially reduced. He was resigning his post to take the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Denver. Looking back over his administration of the National Guard, for which the U. S. spends in the neighborhood of $27,000,000 a year, he wrote: "Never was the National Guard more thoroughly organized, equipped and trained than it is today. Having accomplished the major missions that challenged when this appointment was accepted, believing it unwise to initiate...
Born 52 years ago in Ohio, Major General Everson served in the Spanish-American War, was ordained a Baptist minister in 1901, fought on the Italian front in the World War, was the American Legion's chaplain in 1923-24. As head of the National Guard, he supervised 51 state and territorial organizations.* During his two years in office. Major General Everson flew more than 100,000 mi. throughout the land, earned the name of Flying Parson. He had held pastorates in Indiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Kentucky...