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...Whom All Blessings Flow. A huge throng of Atlantans, ringing Terminal Station Plaza, cheered and handclapped as a white-haired man, large of frame, square of face, firm of jaw, stepped from the station. Atlanta's Mayor William Berry Hartsfield, a representative of Georgia's Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers, Baptist ministers white and black greeted him-Rev. Dr. George Washington Truett, best-known Baptist in the world. He had arrived in Atlanta last week to preside over the sixth congress of the Baptist World Alliance...
Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson, 80, of Michigan, who claims a "pipeline to God" (TIME, June 12), last week described, in a public statement, what he saw during his trip last month to the Governors' Conference at Albany, Saratoga Springs and in New York City. Lurid was the word for the observations of the Governor, whose lifelong dream is the revival of prohibition. Excerpts...
...every turn, with dance halls and drinking tables on the side, richly dressed and sweet-voiced hosts and uniformed waiters repeatedly urging visitors of every age, including . . . girls, to drink-thank God our girls came home unsullied and never will know how near the brink they were. With Governor Dickinson were his adopted granddaughter, Delia Patterson, 25, and his secretary, Margaret Shaw...
Others who attended the Governors' Conference festivities marveled at Governor Dickinson. Said Governor Cochran of Nebraska: "Nobody saw what Dickinson says he saw. There weren't any wild parties...
...sight of Governor Dickinson milking the Holstein might better be pictured to inspire our people to milk cows instead of treasuries. At the rate civilization is moving in reverse possibly it is high time we all got on our knees...