Word: beaconed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian Beacon, weekly publication of the fundamentalist Bible Presbyterian Church again trained its guns on the U.S. Navy. Four of its eight tabloid-size pages were spattered with editorials, copies of official letters, affidavits concerning a Southern Baptist Navy chaplain who was relieved of active duty "because of his extremely zealous evangelistic inclinations [which were] embarrassing and disquieting to the associates in the Navy...
...reprimanded me for my zeal in winning men to Christ, saying that there were other duties more important . . . told me ... that I did not have the Navy picture." Chaplain Gatlin added 'but I knew how to show a man who was dying how to go to Heaven." The Beacon termed the Navy chaplaincy situation "most deplorable," said "it concerns definitely every true Christian in the United States of America." The case of Chaplain Gatlin might be extreme. It was not new. Last year the Navy forced Chaplain Norbett G. Talbott to resign because of scruples about serving beer...
Among them : Capitol, Hit, Asch, Beacon, Blue Note, Comet, Commodore, De Luxe, Dix, Apollo, Savoy, Harmonia, Keynote, Exclusive, Feature, Musicraft...
...enrollment, at 135, was down 75%. A quarter of the faculty of 65 was away on war leave. But Bowdoin was struggling, in the words of President Kenneth Charles Morton ("Casey") Sills, to keep "the flame of liberal education . . . ready for the day when it shall again become a beacon light...
...Passionate Believer." Jack Knight inherited the Akron Beacon-Journal from his father. He has achieved an Akron monopoly by absorbing his Scripps-Howard competitor, gone on to acquire the Detroit Free Press and the Miami Herald. The three papers operate independently of one another. Knight is currently among those most often mentioned as a likely purchaser of the late Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News, but he disclaims any ambition to become another Hearst or Howard...