Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kentucky-educational home of a Brazilian named João Soren, new president of the Baptist World Alliance; see RELIGION, Baptists on the March...
...lifelong Baptist, Taft started on the Herald as a copy boy in 1949, served as polo editor for a spell, and worked several other mundane beats before getting his present assignment seven years ago. Most newsmen consigned to the church department have a tendency to groan. Taft accepted his new post as a serious challenge and a solemn responsibility...
They did not mention him by name, but the 13,000 "messengers" (delegates) assembled in Miami last week for the 103rd annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention did their best to torpedo Senator John F. Kennedy's chances to be President...
...dominated by three older sisters, hovering nurses and governesses, and a doting mother. His father taught him caution and thrift; he had to account every week for all the money he earned in household chores, was docked 1? for such delinquencies as being late to family prayers. From his Baptist mother. Laura Spelman Rockefeller, he absorbed a sense of piety and duty. Dancing, the theater, cardplay-ing and other frivolities were frowned on; at ten, young Rockefeller made a vow. which he never broke, to abstain from "tobacco, profanity and the drinking of any intoxicating beverages...
...William Green (1873-1952) was a Midwestern Baptist, a president of the A.F.L. His window, dedicated to agriculture and the sea, shows Ruth gleaning in the fields, Peter the fisherman, the harvest in Naboth's vineyard, and Joseph as a shepherd...