Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Metairie Baptist Church...
...First Baptist Church St. Joseph...
Preferred Risk was founded with $10,000 apiece from William Norton Plymat 43, a Minnesota dry leader and nonsmoker; the Rev. Sam Morris, 55, a Texas Baptist minister, and Jules Jackson Mallon, 41, a Manhattan lawyer. The three ended up in top posts-Morris as president, Plymat as treasurer, Mallon as secretary-but counted only 250 lonely pol-cyholders their first year. They now have 120,000 policyholders, of all faiths, in 47 states, including such well-known drys as ex-Record Miler Glenn Cunningham and the University of Illinois' Physiologist Dr. Andrew...
...lodrome d'Hiver (capacity: 20,000) to hear him. Standing beneath a giant Scoreboard, Billy exhorted them, in short, hard-hitting sentences, to "repent, receive Jesus Christ through faith, and surrender and commit everything to Jesus Christ." After each sentence, he waited while U.S.-educated French Baptist Minister Jacques Blocher translated his words into French at the same speed and with the same intonation and gestures...
...white Southern Baptist Convention, biggest Baptist group in the world (membership: 7,883,708), has taken an equivocal stand on segregation, last year commended the Supreme Court for "deferring" application of its ruling on desegregation. Two Negro Baptist conventions have 7,133,357 members, operate separately from their white coreligionists...