Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Once the Democrat reported: "John Jones was divorced from his wife, Ella, at the Courthouse Tuesday. Mrs. Jones ran off with her brother-in-law while her husband and children were at the Baptist Church." To critics, Editor Aull replied: "I could have smoothed that thing over. But if I did, my readers would begin to lose confidence. They'd say, 'Aull has quit printing the news...
Vacationing at Martha's Vineyard, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, pastor of Manhattan's Abyssinian Baptist Church and Manhattan's first Negro Congressman-to-be popped off to a reporter...
...Trumans. A member of the Grandview (Mo.) Baptist Church since his youth, Candidate Truman was once interested enough in Buchmanism to speak twice at Oxford Group meetings. He now disclaims any interest in the Oxford Group, has never met Founder Frank Buchman. Truman jokes that he always seems to get back in the old parish "about the time they are raising money." But Pastor E. W. Bowman says the Senator is a generous contributor. Although last week's Christian Century called Truman "a religious man," the Senator confesses that he has "never been a very active churchgoer." Last Sunday...
...There have been nine Episcopalian Presidents: Washington, Madison, Monroe, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Pierce, Arthur and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The other 22 Presidents have included five Presbyterians, four Methodists, four Unitarians, two Reformed Dutch, one Quaker, Baptist, Congregationalist, Disciple of Christ. Jefferson, Lincoln and Hayes were not church members...
...more than 150 children filed applications to go to Vermont. Church workers interviewed each child and his parents, selected the children they thought most needed the change, would be happiest in white homes, would best represent the Negro race. About half of the children did not attend the Abyssinian Baptist Church, but the church paid all transportation costs ($1,000). It also spent $800 for new clothes for about a third of the children...