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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. William Thompson Galliher, 73, of Washington, D. C., banker, trustee of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, treasurer of the Hoover-Curtis inaugural committee; in Washington; of heart disease...
...signs "Dan Poling." One of these (The Heretic) he wrote on a Westbound transcontinental train. He has laid his novels on New York harbor barges, in Pittsburgh steel mills. He knows about New York because in the winter he functions there as pastor of the Marble Collegiate Reformed Church. About Pittsburgh he learned while collaborating with Bishop Francis John McConnell on the Steel Report Committee of the Interchurch World Movement in 1912, a committee which shares the credit for getting the steel laborers' workday cut from twelve hours to eight. During the War he served with...
When first the Russian Communists started to undermine the power of the Russian Orthodox Church they welcomed into their country Baptists, Methodists, helped thereby to create factions in the Orthodox Church and weaken it. In time however, the Baptists grew so strong that not only was Russian Orthodoxy threatened but also Russian Atheism. The Soviet Government, therefore, has lately passed several laws intended to weaken Baptist activities (TIME, April 22). Last week, Russian Baptists, still strong, conducted a mass and total Baptism in the Moscow River. Horrified the Soviet Working Moscow editorialized: "Right here in Moscow! With the All Union...
...Macon, Ga., Phil Towns, 104, was arrested for Prohibition-law violation. Explained he: "I'm a deacon of the church, and just use it to keep in condition-as I have for 90 years...
Some of the U. S. authorities are William Green (American Labor and the Church), James P. Thompson (Religion is the Negation of Truth), Abraham J. Muste (Questions from the Left), A. Philip Randolph (Negro Labor and the Church...