Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pledged equal treatment and recognition to all Christian denominations, after a White House visit by Lutheran, Baptist, Seventh-Day Adventist leaders, who came to protest his appointment of a representative to the Papal State (TIME, Jan. 1). To these Mr. Roosevelt outlined, in deepest secrecy, his tentative program for peace proposals. Later, it was learned, the appointment to Rome of Myron C. Taylor may fall through. The President wants to take advantage of the Vatican's unsurpassed diplomatic coverage through world-wide listening posts; the Vatican is not so keen...
...lines from a 1938 Christmas card sent her by a Miss Dorothy Glover, also of Bristol. Miss Glover said her card was based on lines scribbled by her late father, Dr. Richard Glover, on the back of a post card. It appeared that Dr. Glover, onetime President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain took down the lines after he heard them recited by a Mme Katherine Gerrish. now a teacher of singing. She was quite unable last week to remember where she got them...
...Louie D. Newton, pastor of Atlanta's big Druid Hills Baptist Church, publicly addressed six questions to Mr. Roosevelt, suggesting that the President was trying to put something over on Congress, the Constitution, the people. In Washington, representatives of Northern, Southern and Negro Baptists drafted a letter to the White House (text not released), which they said praised Mr. Roosevelt's peace efforts but deplored the appointment of Mr. Taylor. Last week Christian Century, non-sectarian but Baptist in sympathy, bluntly editorialized...