Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's No. 1 Baptist Churchman traveled with pleasant English briskness through the South last week, reminding the 11,000,000 U.S. members of the church that its interests and their obligations are worldwide...
White-bearded, pink-pated Dr. James Henry Rushbrooke, 72, president of the Baptist World Alliance, had packed up his things at headquarters in London weeks before, come to the U.S. to attend the Alliance's executive committee meeting this week in Chicago. Along the way Dr. Rushbrooke preached many a sermon. He also sat in many a conference with clergy and laymen, outlining the wartime plight of the church from the Yangtze to the Zuyder Zee. But he saw hope, where many Baptists still could not see it, in Russia's easing attitude toward religion. Said he, seriously...
When Gompers died in 1924, it was no radical, but upstanding Baptist Bill Green whom Lewis nominated for the A.F. of L. presidency. By 1927 Lewis was strong enough in the hearts of the Republicans to be offered the Secretaryship of Labor by President Calvin Coolidge...
Speakers roundly walloped radio chains which give free time to the "vociferous liberals" of the Federal Council of Churches but, said the speakers, deny it to conservatives. The Baptist Watchman-Examiner's editor, Dr. John W. Bradbury, attacked "the American Embassy to the Vatican," called for united action "to demand of our Government that it cease this invasion of Constitutional provision . . . close the Vatican Embassy . . . cancel the appointment of even so much as a personal ambassador of the President to the Pope...
...National Defense Minister James Layton Ralston is a Baptist, a great Canadian, a hog for detail...