Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which she did a gay little scene of a country beer garden with Negro and white drinkers at the tables, Negro and white children dancing or shooting craps. Second job undertaken was the wall on each side of the altar in Ossining's Star of Bethlehem Negro Baptist Church. Proud of his protegee, Offie Edward Cherry nailed up scaffolding for her and she started to work last June...
...Spanish Leftists. Next month when the Episcopal Church holds its triennial General Convention in Cincinnati, the C. L. I. D. plans to hold a sideshow series of meetings, with speeches by such people as Socialist Norman Thomas (a Presbyterian minister), the C. I. O.'s Homer Martin (onetime Baptist preacher), Howard ("Buck") Kester of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (Baptist minister), Negro Lawrence Oxley of the U. S. Department of Labor, Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union...
...Brother Anderson," drawled Homer Martin like the Baptist preacher he once was, "I'll answer you in kind. You and obstructionists like you are holding up the committees...
...China, great stamping ground of missionaries, has long been dear to the Baptist hearts of the Rockefellers, and the current destruction wreaked by the Japanese on many human and institutional beneficiaries of the Foundation must inevitably bring dismay to its trustees. Nankai University, whose Rockefeller-aided science building was destroyed by Japanese shells a month ago, was given $45,000 (Mex.) last year. Besides aid to a handful of universities. Rockefeller projects in North China included mass education, public health, rural reconstruction...
...Foundation's president saw no sensational shifts of Rockefeller procedure but a continuation and broadening of traditional policy. His administration was proving quite satisfactory to his trustees and there was a note of crispness and dispatch in the Rockefeller Center offices which would have gladdened the Baptist heart of old John D. Sr., who died during Mr. Fosdick's first year...