Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusk fell over the little one-street town of Pleasanton (pop. 2,073), 5° plain Texans gathered in the white frame First Baptist Church. Many of the men-ranchers, merchants, peanut farmers, railroad workers-were in shirt sleeves. Their women wore wash dresses. They had come to pray for the success of the San Francisco conference...
...speech was a dedication rather than a proclamation, the dedication of a modest man to the service of his people. In closing, Harry Truman, devout Baptist, reached back to the Book of Kings for a prayer...
Last week smiling Miss Ruth and grinning Private Holland, who wore the ribbons of the Silver Star and Purple Heart and carried two canes to help him balance on his artificial legs, were married at West Conshohocken's Baligomingo Baptist Church...
...editor can and does call a Democrat a Democrat, a Baptist a Baptist, sometimes even a spade a spade-but he has to be very careful whom he calls a Communist. Many a Communist-at-heart takes care not to be one officially. What many an editor would like to know: is it libelous per se to call a man a Communist? To the growing body of legal opinion, on which a solid answer will be based some day, two noteworthy items were added last week...
...past eight years the Rev. Mr. Settle has combined his choir work with the pastorate of Cleveland's Gethsemane Baptist Church. In over 1500 concerts in 45 States and 374 consecutive Sunday radio broadcasts, he has proved that there is no U.S. color line when it comes to the old Negro hymns (Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Sometimes I feel Like a Motherless Child, etc.). For the past year, service men and their chaplains have bombarded the Rev. Mr. Settle with requests to bring "Wings Over Jordan" overseas. Good-humored preacher-director Settle is convinced that U.S. servicemen are turning...