Word: davises
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The program got under way last week at Georgia's Fort Gordon and at Fort Polk, La., where another Vietnamese village has been set up. The course consists of an extra 98-hour week of field training and marks the first time that the Army has given such specialized...
As senior minister of Washington's National City Christian Church, the Rev. George R. Davis of course favors equal rights for Negroes-but he has grave doubts about most of the methods Negroes use to get them. In the capital, where politics is everyone's chief obsession, Davis...
A native of Tulsa, Davis, 56, is a florid, old-fashioned kind of orator who held pastorates at Chickasha, Okla., St. Joseph, Mo., and Wichita Falls, Texas (where he first preached to Johnson in 1959), before coming to National City in 1961. Even without presidential patronage, it was a flattering...
God Was There. Johnson, who maintains membership in the First Christian Church of Johnson City, Texas, began attending National City regularly after he moved into the White House, half a mile away. He found in Davis a clergyman who was not shy about expressing admiration for the President. In an...
Having a friend in the White House does not spare Davis from criticism by other clergymen. Martin Luther King's Washington spokesman, Baptist Minister Walter E. Fauntroy, says: "Davis is the most reactionary minister we have." The Disciples' civil rights leader, the Rev. Barton Hunter of Indianapolis, considers...