Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eager to second him was Albert Victor Alexander, longtime Baptist lay preacher and British First Lord of the Admiralty. Going over all the usual reasons for the abolition of submarines: humanity, their use as offensive weapons, cost, he added yet another...
...Plan of Study." No great sagas fancifully encrust the childhood of "Charlie" Hughes. He was born April 11, 1862 at Glens Falls, N. Y. His father, a Welsh immigrant, was a Baptist minister, poor in goods, rich in classic learning. The boy at five started school at Oswego, N. Y., only to return to his father a few weeks later with a paper written by him and headed: "Charles Evans Hughes' Plan of Study." After that he was taken out of school, given home instruction by his parents. The family moved to Newark, N. J., then on to New York...
From Madison (now Colgate) College he transferred to Brown from which he was graduated in 1881 with honors. The parental wish that he enter the Baptist ministry he rejected, to turn to law. He was graduated, No. 1 in his class, from Columbia Law School in 1884. He immediately entered the law firm of Chamberlin, Carter & Hornblower, was made a partner and married Miss Antoinette Carter, daughter of the firm's senior member...
...Columbus, Ohio, over the door of the parsonage of the Antioch Negro Baptist Church, a sign said: ''Healtho, $25,000 bonded product, sold here." Within dozed Andrew Mabe, 83. Law officers arrested him, confiscated seven gallons of booze, a 40-gal. still...
North Carolina. Opposition for the first time in 17 years to the renomination and reelection of Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons appeared when Joseph William Bailey, potent Raleigh attorney and politician, announced his candidacy for the June primary. Would-Be Senator Bailey, a dry Baptist who supported the regular Democratic ticket in 1928, would punish Senator Simmons for deserting Alfred Emanuel Smith...