Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand dollars were still left in the fund, and lumber and materials for a house (with electric lights and a bathroom) were on order. Powell's Furniture Store of Inman had promised to furnish the front room. The First Baptist Church of Landrum had donated a Bible, the Orange Crush Co. a mule, and other gifts were still coming in-an electric pump, fertilizer, pecan trees, dishes...
...godly, .moral America cannot be maintained if the young womanhood of the nation is to major in liquor and minor in education." The Rev. Dr. William Ward Ayer, pastor of Manhattan's Calvary Baptist Church, said he had discovered that the U.S. has twice as many barmaids* as coeds...
Chicken Again. At the First Baptist Church he listened attentively to the sermon, dropped a $1 bill into the collection plate. Lunch (by the Presbyterian ladies) was Missouri ham. The schedule called for a nap after lunch. But a bunch of "40-and-8" Legionnaires were whooping it up on the street around a mock locomotive, and calling for Harry Truman. He mounted the contraption, posed for many pictures. Then someone yelled: "Ring the bell." Harry Truman yanked the rope, clanged the bell hard and long. The crowd was delighted. So was the President...
...supper time (fried chicken by the Baptist ladies) everybody else in his party was worn and weary. The President again played the piano, busily signed more mementos, beamed his happiness. Caruthersville's big day was over. To a man it agreed: Harry Truman had had more fun than anybody...
...captain in Georgia wrote: "My wife being a staunch Southern Baptist and I a Presbyterian . . . can we get into religious work which involves no denomination...