Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sheltered Life. At Oklahoma Baptist University, not far from an Army flying school, complications were avoided by posting in the girls' dormitory an up-to-date list of all cadets who had wives...
Short, glib Joshua Bryan (for William Jennings) Lee is an ordained Baptist minister, in the Senate represents legally dry Oklahoma. To the bill to draft 18-& 19-year-olds he tacked an amendment: ". . . In the interest of the common defense it shall be unlawful within such reasonable distance of any military camp, station, fort, post, yard, base, cantonment, training or mobilization place as the Secretary of War shall determine . . . for any person, corporation, partnership, or association to sell, supply, give or have in his or its possession any alcoholic liquors, including beer, ale, or wine...
...statement itself. They include President Luther A. Weigle of the Federal Council of Churches, Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker of the Episcopal Church, Moderator Stuart Nye Hutchison and Stated Clerk William Barrow Pugh of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., President Joseph C. Robbins of the Northern Baptist Convention, Douglas Horton, Secretary and Minister of the Congregational-Christian Churches, Quaker Frank Aydelotte, "Y" General Secretary Eugene Epperson Barnett, 16 college and seminary presidents (headed by Princeton's Harold Willis Dodds and Union's Henry Sloane Coffin), ten Methodist bishops, five Episcopal bishops, and such other ecclesiastic bigwigs...
...Speechifying mightily against O'Daniel is flamboyant, influential Rev. J. Frank ("Two-Gun")- Norris, pastor of Fort Worth's mammoth First Baptist Church. Pastor Norris, a skilled practitioner of two-gun oratory, has staged rallies in Fort Worth and Houston, letting go against Pappy with both guns...
Heroic battlefield surgery during the Japanese invasion of Burma (TIME, April 13, 20; July 20) earned Burma-born Major Gordon S. Seagrave, onetime medical missionary with the American Baptist Mission, the Order of the Purple Heart (originated by George Washington...