Word: dawson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were good words in abundance. Convention President John Dawson, a Chicago investment broker, announced that for the first time in seven years the convention had raised more (by $250,000) than the amount of its budget ($6,800,000). American Baptists, the delegates heard, gave 9% more in church contributions last year than the year before. In a special ceremony, the convention dedicated 71 home and foreign missionaries, the largest group in recent history...
WILLIAM B. DAWSON III Jacksonville...
...cast itself has no flaws. Isabel Bigley is big and attractive in voice and frame as a chorus girl who renounces a brutish electrician for the assistant stage manager. As her suitors, Mark Dawson and Bill Hayes each have powerful stage voices but too little to do with them; the shifts between the backstage plot and the on stage musical are so frequent that none of the principals is seen often enough. This is especially true of Joan McCracken, pixie-faced little dancer whose number, "It's Me," is the show's comic high point. Helena Scott, Juliet...
...time it heard two witnesses against confirmation, one for it, and Conant himself. Appearing against Conant were Mrs. Beatrice Brown, chairman of the Women's Committee for Clean Government of New York and John T. Flynn, Boston journalist and radio commentator. The one witness for confirmation was Joseph M. Dawson executive director of the Public Affairs Committee of the Baptists of the United States...
Joseph P. Dawson, representing the Baptists of the United States, devoted the bulk of his time to stating that Conant's position on parochial schools is "in harmony with the historic position of the Government" and is supported by the Baptists...