Word: baptistisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other trials, that of 16 workers accused of murdering the police chief of Gastonia, got going again last week at Charlotte after repeated delays (TIME, Sept. 23). The 16 defendants, mostly Northern organizers of the National Textile Workers' Union (Communist), hired a new lawyer-a big-framed, ingratiating Baptist named Frank Flowers who voted for Al Smith and has conservative social views. His type and standing were expected to help the "atheistic" labor radicals with the fundamentalist jury. Further help to the defendants, who were pleading they shot in self-defense when Sheriff Aderholt came to "raid" their headquarters...
Rare are churchmen with financial ability, yet a Rochester, N. Y. congregation a few years ago insured Dr. Clinton Wunder for $100,000 and watched with amazement the ease with which he financed their $3,000,000 Baptist Temple Building. Last week, after hearing Dr. Wunder read an unexpected note of resignation, the congregation was even more aware of his smartness...
...Wunder, long acquainted with members of the firm, became closely associated with them in the work of financing the Baptist Temple. They discovered that he, aged 36, is a dynamo for work. The Baptist Temple project includes successfully operating a 14-story office building and a commercial restaurant, organizing a community service plan, adding 1,300 new church members. The Sunday congregations, whooped up by advertising, average 3,500, fill the auditorium half an hour before the service. The annual budget of the Temple amounts to $120,000. While Dr. Wunder made no mention of his new salary, congregation members...
...unseeded entrant. The eight seeded players survived together to the quarterfinals. The finals were won by Clarence M. Charest, of Washington, D. C. who learned to play left-handed when he lost his right arm in a shooting accident twelve years ago. He defeated Jean Baptist Adore of Dallas...
...sectarianism, but suffers the further weakness of conflict between the sects. Many Protestant preachers realize this but avoid the subject as unpleasant. Many others are busy adding to the confusion. Not so Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, curly-headed, fat-cheeked, dynamic pastor of Manhattan's Park Avenue Baptist Church. Last week he made one of the direct, unequivocal remarks which distinguish him from so many divines, which make the overflow of his congregations willing to listen to him by radio in the basement of his church in order to earn admission to regular upstairs pews on the following Sunday...