Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best small band: the King Cole Trio, which nine years ago was playing California cocktail bars for $25 a week apiece. Now, largely because of the casual "singing of Nat (King) Cole, son of a Negro Baptist minister, the trio earns $5,000 a week, for such songs as Straighten Up and Fly Right ("Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top") and Get Your Kicks on Route...
Died. Josiah William Bailey, 73, Baptist-bred U.S. Senator from North Carolina (since 1931), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, fervid champion of States' Rights and one of the most caustic of the anti-New Deal Southern Democrats, onetime editor of the Baptist Biblical Recorder; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Raleigh...
...witness, Robert Gandy, Baptist church deacon, insurance man, and political associate of Bilbo's, had been testifying about an arrangement under which, he said, part of a $25,000 campaign contribution by a war contractor was to have been paid to Collins...
Purging the Nile. The most vulnerable point in this cycle, reasoned Dr. Barlow, is the snail; if the snails were killed the young larvae would soon die and the cycle would be broken. Barlow, an old China hand (21 years a Baptist medical missionary) and longtime Rockefeller Foundation hookworm researcher in Egypt, retired five years ago to devote himself, as an Egyptian Government health officer, to snail extermination. Weapon: a copper sulphate purge, dumped into the Nile and its network of canals...
Meeting in Savannah, Georgia's Baptist Convention got ready to vote on the report of its Social Service Committee: ". . . That the Christian people of Georgia be urged to apply the principles of Jesus in a serious effort to allay the growing race tensions so spotlighted by the lynchings in Georgia and the recent Columbians Inc. disturbances in Atlanta." Up jumped ex-Navy Chaplain Joseph A. Rabun, 39, new pastor of the McRae Baptist Church, where rabble-rousing, Governor-elect Gene Talmadge is the leading lay member. Shouted Pastor Rabun: "That is not strong enough! We need to condemn with...