Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Nye did not go directly to Washington. That night he spoke at Pittsburgh's First Baptist Church. His manner and tone were bitter and defeatist: ". . . just what Britain had planned for us"; "we have been maneuvered into this by the President...
Head Coach Richard C. Harlow of the Harvard football team will bring to the pulpit of the First Baptist Church Sunday a story of football, character and religion....Coach Harlow's appearance will assume the form of an interview, in which Rev. Mr. Fowler will ask the Harvard mentor questions, the answers to which are intended to show the relationship of football with character and religion. The pastor will then preach on "The Spirit of Notre Dame." --From the Boston Globe...
LaGuardia (from a Baptist church): "Pray for forgiveness of those evil men with hatred in their hearts who, with strong words on their tongues, hurling invective and vituperation, create racial hatred because they are so desperate. Pray for them-they need it. Let us be serene, kindly and forgiving-for they know not what they do." (Night before, at a rally): "Whoever says [I have an interest in a bus line] is a dirty contemptible liar and a yellow cowardly...
From Stanleyville, Belgian Congo, Chicago Daily Newsman George Weller last week told how a young British Baptist missionary had gone so far native as to revive drum talking. John Carrington, 29, learned the drum tongue from a tattooed old drum master, Lifindiki Tuaytolo, freely translated as Quarrelsome Smith. Missionary Carrington and Quarrelsome Smith taught young tribesmen how to converse with a two-toned hollowed wood drum...
...Baptist John D. Rockefeller sought out Baptist Harper, offered him the presidency of a new Baptist college, on which he was prepared to spend $10,000,000. But Harper, who knew exactly what he wanted, held out for three years until Rockefeller agreed to start not a college but a university. Harper became Chicago's founder and president...