Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northern Baptists held their 43rd annual convention in Boston's red brick Mechanics' Hall with plenty of fervent hymn-singing and services on Boston Common. To preside for the coming year over the 2,000,000 Northern Baptists in 36 states, the 3,000 delegates elected the Rev. Dr. Edward H. Pruden, pastor of Washington's First Baptist Church, which Baptist Harry Truman attends...
...major decision of the delegates: the official name of the Northern Baptist Convention was changed to the American Baptist Convention. The Rev. Edwin T. Dahlberg, a former convention president, said optimistically: "We are inspired by the hope that ultimately we may join together with the Southern Baptists...
March of Science. In Atlanta, a 17-year-old mountain girl, admitted to Georgia Baptist Hospital for a bladder operation, was unimpressed when she received her first telephone call (from her mother), commented: "At home Ma'd be right there-and I could hear her better...
...Baptist minister's son, Palmer Hoyt was a sergeant major in World War I, then a successful writer of westerns (one Hoyt hero: a buckaroo with a revolving glass eyeball). He joined the Portland Oregonian in 1926, in twelve years rose from copyreader to publisher. In 1946 the Denver Post's owners hired him away on a fat, longtime contract...
Diplomatic Relations. In the pre-Revolutionary period, according to Author Stokes, religious liberty in America received its chief impetus from such men as Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore, Roman Catholic founder of Maryland, from Baptist John Clarke, sometimes called the "Father of Rhode Island," and from Quaker William Penn of Pennsylvania...