Word: booth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along with the other two parts of the plan, within the $750,000 limit fixed by the Committee. To skimp the theater would be inexcusable. It should be a theater, not an auditorium--a theater with at least 1500 seats, adequate dressing rooms, a modern stage, and a projection booth and other technical facilities. Without those qualities its usefulness would plummet downwards, negating the effects of economy...
...William Booth became "General" and his new Salvation Army fell into step behind him as uniformed privates, noncoms and officers-with bands, "councils of war," "orders of the day" and "knee-drill" (prayer). The enemy was the Devil, and the Army marched to meet him wherever the going was toughest: in Skid Rows and slum alleyways...
...43rd issue of the Salvation Army Yearbook, published by the international headquarters in London and released in the U.S. last week, records-as far as figures can-the good fight that Booth's troops have fought. During the past fiscal year the Army has given out 33,772,383 meals and 10,941,102 beds, found jobs for 77,766, operated 415 shelters, hostels and food depots, maintained 94 maternity homes and 26 industrial and boarding schools. Commissioned officers and cadets increased by 4,294 (to 32,105), and 15,205 laymen were employed fulltime...
...machine with its 4,000,000-odd "adherents" that copes with this worldwide problem of spiritual and material logistics is a very different organization from the little band of inspired amateurs who first surrounded William Booth and his wife Catherine. And the faith has mellowed, if not changed...
...Booth left the Methodist ministry because the ragtag-&-bobtail following he drew with his fiery street-corner sermons shocked his respectable brethren. Now the Army considers itself a religious body much like any other Protestant denomination, with an accent on works and service. But the old-fashioned blue-and-red uniforms still stand for humility and love-and another chance for sinners...