Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bearded priests of the Russian Orthodox Church and the clergy of Moscow's few "outside" churches-Roman Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Moslem and Buddhist -called special services to pray for the man who boasted of his atheism. The rabbis of Russia summoned their worshipers to bless the man who had so recently set in motion the scourge of antiSemitism...
...late John Roach Straton was a loud and somewhat lonely voice of protest against the "mechanized Gomorrah" of Manhattan's Roaring Twenties. In 1923, as pastor of Manhattan's Calvary Baptist Church, he set up a small radio station, WQAO, in the basement of his church, and took to the air with his evangelistic message. Said Pastor Straton: "I hope that our radio system will prove so efficient that when I twist the Devil's tail in New York, his squawk will be heard across the continent...
...obscenity is "so vague" that the law "lends itself to distortion and abuses." The bill's definition of obscenity: "Literature offensive to chastity or modesty." Last week, when the three-man board took office, it became plain how right Editor McGill had been. Board Chairman James Wesberry, a Baptist minister, was asked whether works of art showing nude women would be banned by the board. Replied Censor Wesberry: "I don't discriminate between nude women whether they are art or not. It's all lustful to me." Editor Hubert Dyar of the weekly Royston Record (circ...
...Superintendent Ray Anderson of the First Baptist Church in Lakewood, Calif. stayed up a eucalyptus tree for 20 hours, until attendance...
...pronunciation of his state to make it rhyme with Kansas. "Change the name of Arkansas?" boomed he. "Never!" No serious attempt has been made since then to tinker with the name of Arkansas; but one man has tried-with notable success-to change its face. He is a bustling Baptist named C. (for Coulter) Hamilton Moses, chairman of Arkansas Power & Light Co., who has been called the "Billy Sunday of Business." In the past ten years, Industrial Evangelist Moses has been the prime mover in a program to lure industry to his state...