Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bouncing among his guests, helping them to tea, conferring honorary degrees (in Latin) on Catholic Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum, Baptist Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jewish Governor Lehman and twelve other bigwigs, small, genial President Gannon had a wonderful time. He showed his guests an up-to-date university: Fordham has a big-time football team, a world-famed seismograph (earthquake-recording) station, a Nobel Prize winner (Physicist Victor F. Hess), a downtown branch in the Woolworth Building, schools of law, business, social service, pharmacy. Of Fordham's 8,200 students, only 1,400 are in its liberal arts college...
...Connecticut they found a big black woman who was "something called Baptist," tried chewing raw tobacco leaf, discovered they were being "kidded" when other youngsters in school asked them if they wanted Germany to win the war. School patriotism threw them into a flat spin. They thought at first the mumbled words of the salute to the flag meant "Routine and Justice...
...Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, noted Roman Catholic radio preacher, took to bed for a "checkup and rest." The place: Boston's New England Baptist Hospital...
...Lord's Acre project may be as modest as a pig-North Carolinian Betty Mae Cope raised one for her Methodist church, netted $15.50-or as big as the planting done by farmers near Hendersonville, N.C., who ran up a whole new $8,000 Baptist church with their tithing. Hendersonville's Baptists raised $2,352 in a single year by the Plan. Men fattened pigs for market or planted extra crops. The men's Bible Class grew potatoes as a group project, made $469. Women gave the "Sunday 5" from their flocks, grew flowers to sell. Children...
...obstinate, teetotaling Baptist, veteran of the Spanish-American War, Frank Dees, who bought the telephone company in 1913, is also in business in real estate, restaurants, and has a Shell oil distributorship. A rich man, for his county, he is worth close...