Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These sound sentiments were voiced last week by a man who is a Baptist by birth but a Christian by conviction: John D. Rockefeller Jr. He has given much of his life and fortune to the cause of church unity. Last week, as he often had before, John D. Jr. hit hard at disunity, warned that the churches' survival hinged on their joining in a great rebirth as the "Church of the Living God." Said he at a dinner of New York's Protestant Council...
...philanthropic mood, Dallas liquor dealers sent out three fat gifts: $25,000 to Baylor University (Baptist), $30,000 to Southern Methodist University, $10,000 to St. Paul's Hospital (Catholic). Last week the first two gifts came back; the Baptist and Methodist educators said dryly that acceptance would be inconsistent with their dry teachings. The Catholic Samaritans said thanks...
...Elected the Council's first Negro vice president (to serve with Manhattan's Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, outstanding Methodist liberal [TIME, June 26], who was elected president, to succeed Episcopal Bishop Henry St. George Tucker). He is quiet, earnest Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, 49, Baptist minister and president of Atlanta's Morehouse College. A firm believer in education and patience as cures for racial discrimination, Baptist Mays is himself so tolerant that he has never once tried to proselytize his Methodist wife...
...Dabney's talk has long plagued conservative Virginians. As editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, he has tilted his pen at almost every Southern household god. He has offended the Solid South by urging its return to the two-party system. He has outraged the Baptist South by criticizing prohibition and fundamentalism. He incensed the cheap-labor South by leading a campaign which resulted in the shortening of the Virginia work week for women from 60 to 48 hours...
Colonel Crowe's fondness for what he calls his "Baptist Cocktail" has made him also feared by his friends. His recipe: "Go into the kitchen, get a tall glass, and put into it everything you can reach without taking more than three steps." If there is any roach powder, ant paste or canned heat within three steps, Jim is likely to mix a spot or two with the gin, brandy, whiskey and tabasco sauce. But he apparently thrives on such concoctions. At San Diego a doctor told him: "Colonel, you owe your life to a strong constitution and good...