Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turnabout was Arkansas' hardworking, international-minded Brooks Hays, whose plight showed how personal pressures and preoccupations can affect the voting of even a highly conscientious legislator. Hays had been so busy with the unfamiliar duties and responsibilities of his new post as lay president of the Southern Baptist Convention that he could find little time to do his homework on the new foreign-aid program. On the committee's first go-round, he instinctively voted against a sharp departure from Congress' customary practice of year-to-year authorizations for foreign aid. But Hays felt uneasy about...
Born Nathaniel Coles in Montgomery, Ala., Nat dropped the "s" to accommodate the "King" nickname after a nightclub owner put a golden paper crown on his head. He moved as a child to Chicago, where his father became pastor of the True Light Baptist Church and his mother the choir director. He was pounding out Yes, We Have No Bananas on the piano at the age of five, and at 15 he had his own band. It was a nightclub drunk who launched his singing career by insisting that Pianist Cole sing as well as play Sweet Lorraine. Penniless...
...Christian Century, Theology Professor and Baptist Walter Marshall Horton of Oberlin Graduate School of Theology warned a little snappishly that Protestant unity can not and should not be had just for the wishing. "Luncheon clubs, convinced that 'the more we get together the happier we are,' and Hindu philosophers, convinced that all religions are routes to the same destination, can logically support this vague, diffuse type of unity, but Christians cannot. One perennial cause of misunderstanding about the ecumenical movement is that the lay public innocently supposes that this is the 'nature of the unity we seek...
...magistrate, entered the Senate in 1927. There he fought hard for New Deal, built a reputation as a relentless Senate investigator of lobbying and trusts, stood solidly on liberal side of the line despite fact that he had, at 37, been member of Ku Klux Klan. In the court Baptist Black was a novice in constitutional law, but studied incessantly, developed diamond-hard technical knowledge, has held the line for triple-distilled civil liberties and social interpretation of law. He often turns an angry purple at indefatigable Felix Frankfurter. Scholarly, quick-witted, he is immensely shy off-bench...
Sunday Vespers for July will begin at Memorial Church at 8 P.M. on the 7th with The Reverend Arthur R. McKay, President of McCormick Theology Seminary, Chicago, Illinois, preaching, followed on July 14 by The Reverend Gordon M. Torgersen of the First Baptist Church, Worcester, Mass. On July 21 Professor Chandran Devanesen, Madras Christian College Madras, India, will preach. The Reverend Ferdinand Denbeaux of Wellesley College will preach on July...