Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian Beacon, weekly publication of the fundamentalist Bible Presbyterian Church again trained its guns on the U.S. Navy. Four of its eight tabloid-size pages were spattered with editorials, copies of official letters, affidavits concerning a Southern Baptist Navy chaplain who was relieved of active duty "because of his extremely zealous evangelistic inclinations [which were] embarrassing and disquieting to the associates in the Navy...
...Atlantic City, 3,500 delegates of the Northern Baptist Convention (1,460,000 communicants) elected Mrs. Leslie E. Swain of Providence the second woman president in the Convention's 130-year history.* The Convention reaffirmed the Northern Baptist anti-war stand, but decided to give its blessing to individual Baptists taking part in the war. Said the Convention's war resolution (drawn up by Dr. Daniel A. Poling): "The church must be the church-not a recruiting agency for any government. [But] she must companion her sons and daughters wherever as conscientious Christians they...
...first time in its 40-year history, Cleveland's Ministerial Association (representing virtually all Protestant denominations) chose a Negro president. He was Dr. Wade H. McKinney, pastor of Antioch Baptist Church. Last year Dr. McKinney investigated Detroit's race riots for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, later wrote a report which Cleveland's Mayor Frank J. Lausche used in organizing that city's Committee on Democratic Practices...
Actually, the Political Action Committee (P.A.C.) was being given too much credit. John Costello was beaten largely by tough-minded Teamster Dave Beck's A. F. of L. machine, which makes the P.A.C. look like innocent little Baptist truants about to squander their collection money on ice cream sodas. (West Coast Teamster leaders study precinct records: any member who fails to vote loses his union membership, which means losing...
...Women Love Him." Sara Speaks's formidable Democratic opponent is the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who succeeded his father as pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church. Its 10,173 members are reportedly the largest Protestant congregation in the U.S. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.) and young (35), Adam Powell has been successively a javelin thrower at Colgate University, a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, a New York City councilman. He has also led several Harlem picketlines, and edits an aggressive tabloid, The People's Voice. Handsome in a gates-ajar collar, Powell makes...