Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John's wife was a charter member of the W.C.T.U., and a leader in the First Baptist Church of Edgefield. On the small farm which John bought to supplement his modest earnings as an attorney, they brought up three sons and three daughters. James Strom Thurmond was the next to eldest...
...hours later, in San Antonio, the President attended the First Baptist Church. Then, like any other tourist, he dropped a penny in San Antonio's wishing well and visited the Alamo. There he told a crowd that his one ambition is to "see a peaceful happy world-if that can't be accomplished, there is nothing else worth while...
...their church schools. This is America's largest single religious expenditure-and more than any U.S. Protestant denomination spends for all purposes. The total 1947 expenditure of the Methodist Church was only $165,000,000; the second highest in Protestantism, $132,000,000, was raised by the Southern Baptist. Over 9% of the total U.S. scholastic enrollment is in Catholic schools; the figure for elementary schools is nearly...
...Daniel A. Poling, world-famed preacher, resigned last week from Philadelphia's Baptist Temple to assume direction of the Chapel of the Four Chaplains, a memorial to the four Army chaplains-two Protestant, one Catholic, one Jewish-who went down with the torpedoed troopship Dorchester in 1943 after giving their life belts to G.I.s. One of them was Dr. Poling's own son. The inter-faith memorial now being built in Philadelphia will have a Hebrew tabernacle, Catholic altar and Protestant altar on a revolving base...
...county unit system (roughly similar to the national electoral college). Governor Thompson promptly agreed to install Hummon in the Governor's Mansion as soon as the formality of the November general election was over; there was no point in waiting until Inauguration Day in January. Said Thompson, a Baptist: "The people giveth, the people taketh away. Blessed be the name of the people...