Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good people of Orange, Tex. were in their beds when into the Silver Slipper roadhouse strode a 6 ft. 2 in., 220 lb. man brandishing two pistols and displaying a Texas Ranger's badge. The Orange revelers recognized him as Rev. Edgar Eskridge, 40, hard-hitting Baptist crusader, stern critic of local law enforcement...
...fined $5,000 and had his sucker list of 500,000 names destroyed for overshouting "Dr. Robinson's Prescription for Nervous Debility, Lack of Vigor, Failing Memory and Lame Back Brought on by Excesses, Unnatural Drains or the Follies of Youth." Publications like the Police Gazette and Baptist Record carried his advertising...
...projects. Of 32 bodies belonging to the Home Missions Council, five of the largest agreed that after next Oct. 1 they will refrain from subsidizing any enterprise-such as a village church or a school for Indians-that appears to duplicate the work of another. The five denominations -Northern Baptist, Congregational-Christian, Presbyterian, Methodist and Reformed-Evangelical - spent $12,629,883 last year, or 55% of the total for Protestant home missions...
Amplifying this last week, Lecturer Anderson said he might be called a Christian Scientist, psychologist, evangelist or Baptist, "but I do not claim to be any of these. I simply believe in the lessons of Jesus Christ." Asked if he thought he could become President of the U. S. simply by believing in it, he parried: "Ah! If! If I believed it! But I would not believe that. A woman in London asked me whether if she believed she were Queen Mary she would be Queen Mary. I said yes, that there was only one sane woman in England...
Though illiterate, young "Dave" Lewis learned the gift of eloquence from his father, a Welsh coal miner who was a Baptist preacher by avocation. At 20, Son Lewis went to a labor meeting and spoke so stirringly that a newshawk said to him: " Boy, you ought to be a lawyer." At 23, Lewis was. And ten years later, having settled at Cumberland. Md., he began a political career, long, thorny, courageous...