Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texas Rangers had to take a hand. Five Rangers came up from the Rio Grande, five more converged on Kilgore from other parts of the State. Within two hours they had rounded up some 300 suspects and bad characters. The ten Rangers herded the lot of them into the Baptist church, booked them from the pulpit. They were a measly collection. Upon them were found no guns, three tubes of opium, three pints of whiskey. Forty were cut out for detention, the rest were hustled out of town. Two of those detained were wanted for murder, three for bank robbery...
Tall angular Congressman Patman, 37, a War machine gunner, early last winter began his agitation for Bonus-cashing. A missionary Baptist, he spread his gospel of full and immediate payments through the House when his friends assured him he was only crying in a wilderness. He gave the Republican House leadership a bad scare when he got almost 150 signatures to a petition to force the Bonus bill out of committee and into open debate. His converts gave the Battle for the Bonus its first real strength...
...primitive Kentucky murderer, Curt Jett, 55, became a Baptist preacher at Union City, Ky. last week. The incident recalled the fast fading culture of mountainous Kentucky...
...mountaineers. Berea College and Lincoln Memorial University were providing them with modern culture. Curt Jett became an itinerant Methodist evangelist. He married, and entered Asbury College at Wilmore, Ky. He and his wife had trouble. They separated; he quit college and Methodism. He remarried and began studying for the Baptist ministry. Last week as he received his ministerial license at Union City, he was a typical mountain minister: tall and sparse; steady, piercing eyes; a warm, friendly handclasp for everyone; speech homely and Biblical ; a proud rumble to his Amens...
...Reverend Albert B. Cohoe, minister of the First Baptist Church, Montclair, New Jersey, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...