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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discouraged in Louisiana by Huey-was now admitted and allowed to pour in fresh millions in WPA funds. There were big cars, parties, and champagne for all. Then the bubble blew up. Dr. James Monroe Smith, president of L.S.U., vanished one day with his party-loving wife, Thelma. The Doc had been speculating in millions of bushels of wheat and had invented a unique system of financing. Whenever his broker called for more collateral, he merely ordered the printing of more L.S.U. bonds. He was discovered in Canada, brought home, and clapped into jail...
...memory, he said: "Smith is only one man. Jesus Christ picked twelve, and one of 'em was a son-of-a-gun." Then he just hung on-like a sailor lashed to the mast-while gales of scandal blew around his ears. Leche went to prison. So did Doc Smith, George Caldwell, Abe Shushan, and Huey's Campaign Treasurer Seymour Weiss. Monte Hart, a favored contractor, blew out his brains...
Died. Dr. George Elliott MacKinnon, 65, bluff, beloved country doctor, who won fame when hundreds of his former patients turned out to celebrate "Doc MacKinnon" day (TIME, Nov. 26, 1945); after long illness; in Prentice, Wis. In 30 years he delivered 3,000 babies, wore out 17 cars, a sleigh, a buggy, a snowmobile...
Bach and his church board finally decided that he had better take his dreams of unity elsewhere. He went back to college and began studying U.S. Protestantism in earnest. Eventually, he began to agree with Fairfield's old Doc Reynolds: "Churches aren't built on a sense of brotherhood, young man. They're. built on things to be believed . . . Unite the churches and you'll kill what religion there's left...
...says, "will continue to dominate 'Church Street' just as it has since the birth of American freedom." His early crusade for church unity in Fairfield now seems to him "as unimportant as it was impractical." Protestantism's very multiplicity he now considers its strength. As Doc Reynolds once told him: "Protestantism ought to remind a man of spring . . . New life beginning to move. New cells splitting up . . . Did you ever think of Protestantism like that? . . . The multiplication of cells is one of the manifestations of an inherent vital force...