Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning, some 600 of Grand Tower's 1,000 citizens were perched in the school building, the Methodist or Baptist churches, or in tents on the block-square island of high ground. Around them lay the deepest flood water in local history. They had brought portable oil stoves, bedding and other necessities to the island. The Coast Guard boat brought supplies every morning; the movie house rowed in a new film every night. The State Health Department vaccinated everybody for typhoid and smallpox...
Fullback in the Pulpit. His leadership of Christian Endeavor and his editorship of the influential lay religious magazine, the Christian Herald (circ. 390,000), make big Baptist Dan Poling a potent figure in U.S. Protestantism. He throws most of his weight into two-fisted action, rather than into theological ideas. In college, he played football on Saturdays and preached on Sundays; once he appeared in the pulpit with two black eyes and a swollen knee. In 1912 he ran for governor of Ohio. Even if he had won, he was too young (27) to take office legally; but Dan Poling...
Slick-Paper Religion. As pastor of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Reformed Church (1923-30) and Philadelphia's Baptist Temple (since 1936), Dr. Poling has managed to be at home often enough to keep his congregations happy. (He thinks he is the only living member of both the Dutch Reformed and Baptist Churches.) In 1927 he became editor of the Christian Herald, a slick-paper religious magazine which gives deep theological issues short shrift, keeps its religion simple and down to earth...
...make-up of the commission was almost as interesting as its 448-page report. The chairman: Physicist Karl Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The members: Joseph (Mission to Moscow) Davies, ex-Ambassador to Russia and sometime apologist for the Soviet Union; the Rev. Daniel Poling, noted Baptist minister and editor of the Christian Herald; Charles E. Wilson, president of General Electric Co. and wartime vice-chairman of WPB; the Rev. Edmund Walsh, Georgetown University geopolitician; Samuel Rosenman, onetime adviser and ghostwriter to Franklin Roosevelt; Dr. Harold Dodds, president of Princeton University; Truman Gibson Jr., Negro attorney...
They also heard from a Baptist layman who had been to Russia, but who was far cagier in his report than Traveler Newton had been. G.O.P. White House-hunter Harold E. Stassen voiced his "sober optimism" that the U.S. could win the peace by remaining strong and being wise, and hoped that Americans "will never surren er to the insidious whisper of the inevitability of war." He also had something to say about the convention's business: "I wish to state simply and directly that I do not agree with" two of the convention's resolutions...