Word: bedford
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cruising the streets of New Bedford, Mass., in a truck on Sunday mornings, two men shouted this invitation to each & every child they saw. They were members of New Bedford's Church of the Nazarene (a small sect placing great emphasis on revival and "holiness"), which was running a Sunday School attendance contest with the Church of the Nazarene in Maiden. Their method of proselyting was to lure young moppets into the truck with lollypops, trundle them off to church...
...excess of zeal they lured Roman Catholic children. Angered, the Club of Our Lady of the Assumption sent a delegation to the New Bedford Chief of Police, who immediately reprimanded Rev. R. J. Kirkland, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene. Pastor Kirkland agreed to stop the lollypop luring, had never approved of it anyway. But Pastor Kirkland felt satisfied. In the twelfth week of the contest, attendance at his Sunday School totaled 1,373, to Maiden...
...London soon after the present National Government was returned by the largest Conservative majority in British history, hurried Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, rich, pious, ultra-Conservative and politely anxious to sell as much as possible of Canada's towering grain surplus. Last week Mr. Bennett ate the last of several quiet meals with Scot MacDonald and Minister of Dominions James Henry Thomas. Then, without a word for publication, reticent Premier Bennett sailed for Canada while his great and blatant friend, Baron Beaverbrook, trumpeted Bennett achievements...
...Davis, Jr., St. Paul, Minn., O. H. Davis, Mt. Vernon, N. Y., A. B. Dearden, Jersey City, N. J., V. L. Eaton, N. Y. City, B. Feldman, Lynn, W. S. Fields, Tarrytown, N. Y., H. P. Forman, Redding Rge, Conn., L. E. Gatto, Cambridge, L. E. Goldberg, New Bedford, R. M. Goodwin, Newcastle, Ind., G. Gore, Rapid City, S. Dakota, J. M. Gunn, Rexbury, C. L. Harries, Omaha, Neb., L. Herman, Passaie, N. J., R. S. Hull, Danbury, Conn., J. L. Hymens, Jr., L. I., N. Y., C. C. Jamison, Mar Vista, Cal., T. K. Jenkins, Ravenna, Ohio...
...Adelsohn, New Bedford, C. M. Agrees, Dallas, Texas, M. L. Anshen, Brighton, H. L. Barrows, N. Y. City, P. H. Bates, East Weymouth, P. C. Beam, St. Louis, Mo., F. C. Bell, Los Angeles, Calif., G. F. Bennett, Hingham, H. H. Bissell, Cambridge, L. Brooks, Brookline, S. C. Carpenter, Long Island, N. Y., W. T. Cloney, Jr., Dorchester, S. Cohen, Lynn, J. A. Cooper, Birmigham, Ala., L. Cooperstain, Roxbury, A. H. Daniels, Rochester, N. Y., N. B. DeNood, Rochestor, N. Y., H. E. Dow, Burlington, Vt., S. Duker, Pittsfield, W. C. Everett, Arlington, J. L. Finnan, Waltham, G. F. Frazier...