Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided that the liquor industry was a good investment, decided to try whisky stocks. When Vance, Sanders got wind of the plan, it was horrified. A partner gathered up the cards of 1,200 M.I.T. shareholders, walked into a trustee meeting and threw them on the table. They represented Baptist institutions, Christian Scientists, Catholic convents, and other investors who might take a dim view of liquor-even in their portfolios. The trustees hastily backed down...
...Martin Luther King, Minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala., has been named as one of the guest preachers at Memorial Church for next year. The Southern integrationist leader will deliver the Sunday sermon on January...
With her last strength she turns to look at a photograph of her daughter. Smiling peacefully, she dies. The funeral takes place in a Hollywood reconstruction of the little old neighborhood Baptist church -an edifice that looks suspiciously like Westminster Abbey on Coronation...
...landscape once principally adorned by loblolly pine, flue-cured tobacco and two-room farm shacks. Near Laurinburg, Presbyterians broke ground for a new college, a few weeks behind the Methodist groundbreaking for a college at Rocky Mount and three years behind the brand-new $19 million campus of Baptist-affiliated Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem. All were additions to Dixie's best college complex, fed by Dixie's best public school system. In the center of the Piedmont, engineers mapped sites for nuclear, chemical and industrial research labs in a new, 4,000-acre "Research Triangle." East...
...author of four books, including The Life of the Soul, The Life of the Church, The Great Realities, Dr. Miller has also taught a course at the Divinity School on the novels of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Camus and Graham Greene. His other major interest, surprising for a Baptist, is liturgy. Said he last week: "I believe the act of worship is the church's most distinctive contribution to society. There is no other source of power which will enable society to achieve any sort of unity...