Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faculty one evening last week, Canadian-born Dr. Stewart Grant Cole, president of Kalamazoo College and a one-time Baptist minister, announced that Canadian-born Economics Professor Carey K. Ganong was to be dismissed for "inefficiency" and failure to become a naturalized U. S. citizen, as is President Cole. As word of the dismissal spread through the college, indignant students quickly rounded up the band, paraded around the campus, were addressed at a rally by Dr. Ganong, who declared the college officials had given him no opportunity to defend himself. By dawn the 350 students had decided to strike. When...
...Russell's trial made its Philadelphia debut at Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling's Baptist Temple, drew a crowd of 3,500. The jurists who presided were George A. Welsh of U. S. district court, Frank Smith of common pleas, Thomas Bluett of municipal court. As he does whenever possible, Dr. Russell played prosecuting attorney. Dr. Russell and his audience were content to have Alcohol defended by Dr. Virgil P. Brock, Dr. Russell's associate, an evangelist. Called by Dr. Russell "as strong a case as possible" for liquor. Dr. Brock's line was that everyone should...
...First Baptist Church Tampa...
...South, that a textbook dare not use. To please North and South, publishers get out books on "evolution" but do not use that word, speak of "development." The Texas textbook committee once refused to approve a biography of Thomas A. Edison lest they be attacked by a Fundamentalist Baptist, Rev. J. Frank Norris, who hated and feared that atheist inventor. In Louisiana an Elson Reader was banned because of this Mother Goose couplet...
Preliminary statistics from Phillips Brooks House, compiled from the records of religious affiliation obtained at registration, give the numerical representation of the various sects as follows: Baptist 157 Buddhist 4 Catholic 747 Christian Church 42 Christian Science 108 Congregational 410 Disciples of Christ 4 Dutch Reform 8 Episcopalians 469 Ethical Culture 2 Greek Orthodox 13 Jewish 827 Jewish Reformed 11 Lutheran 87 Methodist and Methodist Episcopal 258 Mormon 24 Mohammedan 3 Presbyterian 456 Protestant 226 Quaker (Friends)28 Unitarian...