Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rough & tough East Texas oilfields, had never been one "to mess around with churchgoing." Just the same, she thought that Negro churches might be interested in her idea, so she made the rounds. At the 15th she struck oil. The Rev. J. Henry Hardeman's Corinth Baptist Church was about to move from San Antonio's East Side to a new site. Mrs. Starr persuaded Hardeman that the $39,000 building fund should be used to turn the old church into a hospital instead. She put up her own $44,000 for equipment...
...From the pulpit of Boston's South Baptist Church, the Rev. Louis W. West offered his congregation some political advice: "Most of us in this church are Republicans and the male members have a grand opportunity to show their party loyalty. I suggest they should all grow a Governor Thomas E. Dewey mustache...
...long-standing promise to his daughters. They would see the sights and "take in some shows." He ruled out some ("They might not meet with the platform," said Warren with a laugh), decided on Finian's Rainbow. Sunday night, he and his family attended services at Calvary Baptist Church. This week, before returning to California, he would go to Pawling to discuss campaign plans...
Ever since 1944, when a former Baptist minister named Tommy C. Douglas led the CCF in a rout of the old-line parties in Saskatchewan, the province had been the CCF's show window. On display were a batch of socialist schemes: government insurance policies, socialized shoe and brick factories, a government-owned woolen mill. Government marketing boards kept close tabs on timber, fur and fish, regulated prices and methods of sale...
...Milwaukee, the 5,000 delegates of the Northern Baptist Convention discussed proposals (but took no action) for church reunion-with the Southern Baptists and with the 1,693,807-member Disciples of Christ. Dr. Culbert G. Rutenber of Philadelphia's Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary warned the delegates that U.S. churches are "fearful, humiliated and frustrated...