Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor asked legislators to calculate the cost of their trip to Jackson and send him a check for the amount to complete the Juniper Grove Baptist Church. Said he: "In this way you'll help the Lord instead of the Big Four to play politics...
...through Otis & Co.) sold to Continental Snares one of his richest plums: 40% of the voting stock of United Light & Power (the $500,000,000 utility system which was Mr. Eaton's first big achievement after he had abandoned. in 1906, the idea of becoming a Baptist preacher). But more cash was needed and so he also gave to Continental Shares an additional holding in Cliffs Corp. which, because of its vast reserves of iron ore, was the hub of his steel plan?a plan which approached reality in 1930 with the formation of Republic Steel Corp., the third biggest...
...leaders be lieve that the salvation of their race is not to be found by such purely industrial training as Tuskegee offers, all recognize Dr. Moton as one of their great leaders, a potent contact-man between the Negro and the White. Last week Dr. Meredith Ashby Jones, white Baptist pastor from St. Louis, whose father was chaplain to General Robert Edward Lee, said: "Moton is the perfect incarnation in his personality of the ideal and dream of this re public, that the day shall come when all races and all castes and all classes rep resented in our country...
Escorted by an appropriate retinue- which included, of course, his close friend George MacDonald, papal marquis and prime lay promoter of affairs Roman Catholic in the U. S.-His happy Eminence had passed three weeks on the Gulf Coast to recuperate from influenza. Passing out of Baptist Mississippi into Roman Catholic Louisiana, he had made a bit of news at New Orleans by commenting on the Business Depression as follows: "The American People are experiencing a return to religion following a period of carelessness and cynicism marked by the prosperity of the land. . . . Now they are returning when they find...
...unforeseen, the history-making climax of the cardinal's tour took place. From the Texas legislature had come a unanimous invitation to address the Texas Senate! True, in Texas as in Louisiana, Roman Catholics form the largest single denomination.* Memories of the early Mission Fathers underlie the Baptist and Methodist culture. But Texas voted against Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928. And never before in history has a Prince of Rome been asked to address a State legislative body in the South. The affecting nature of these facts was clearly reflected upon Cardinal Hayes's face when Lieut.-Governor...