Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swank St. Michael's Church in London. Vicar Elliott is England's most famed "Radio Parson," has been longer on the British air-seven and a half years-than any other churchman. His League, however, did not begin piling up memberships until he, another Anglican, a Baptist and a Congregationalist vowed themselves to Peace at the Unknown Soldier's tomb in Westminster Abbey last Armistice Day. Then, like other Englishmen with a cause in their hearts, they wrote a letter about it to the Times...
Married. Thomas Dixon Jr., 75, onetime Baptist preacher who made a fortune from his book, The Clansman (filmed as The Birth of a Nation); and May Donovan, 44, his literary assistant for 18 years; he for the second time, she for the first; in Raleigh...
...complete destruction." To a liberal group which met last week in a West Philadelphia Y. M. C. A., intolerance of intolerance seemed a contradiction in terms. It acted on its convictions. This Committee for Racial and Religious Tolerance-an organization headed by such men as Quaker Rufus Matthew Jones, Baptist Daniel Alfred Poling, Congressman Francis J. Myers-was in session when 30 hecklers burst into its meeting. The Committee tolerantly let them heckle. The invaders shouted denunciations of Jews and praise of Hitler, tossed around anti-Semitic pamphlets and stickers...
Typical signers: Manhattan's Congregationalist Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers; Baptist Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick; Episcopal Bishop Paul Jones of Yellow Springs. Ohio; United Brethren Bishop Arthur Raymond Clippinger of Dayton, Ohio; Quaker Clarence E. Pickett of Philadelphia; Methodist Ernest Fremont Tittle of Evanston...
Maxey Jarman has carroty hair and mustache, a thick Southern drawl and is a Baptist deacon like his father. He neither smokes nor drinks, begins every stockholders' meeting with prayer, fills his annual report with remarks like: "We believe that to be successful we must build on a foundation of Character." He has also filled his annual reports with solid figures. General Shoe now has 40 retail outlets from coast to coast selling shoes in the $3 to $7.50 class. Its fiscal 1938 earnings were $647,670.15, or $1.27 per share. Current orders are the largest in its history...