Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toward a Versailles-proof people's peace, Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover last week contributed some clear thinking about a planned change in the whole method and process of peacemaking...
...surroundings, young Stafford was the pet of the family. His religious mother insisted that her children be "unsectarian Christians . . . taking their religious inspiration directly from the spirit of the New Testament." Stafford absorbed her teachings, but quickly developed "a disconcerting habit of giving unsought, and often unwelcome, advice to elder members of the family." Result: his elder brothers dubbed him "Dad," and "the trait which earned the name has been a characteristic of his political life...
...Elder first felt the call to preach in 1917 while peddling fish near Norfolk. That very night he got some friends together, established a church. Ten years later he moved to Washington. Soon he was broadcasting regularly with his 156-voice chorus, which has been compared favorably with the virtuoso Hall Johnson Choir. For years he has taken over Washington's Griffith Stadium each Sunday night during the summer, drawn crowds of 10,000 to 40,000 with a heavy sprinkling of whites...
Michaux disciples must avoid "rum, rowdy women, slot machines and big talk." But excitement is provided them at the Elder's services. "That was a great mass meeting we had this morning, pilgrims," says the Elder when his congregation has really cut loose. "You can always tell when the Holy Ghost and fire come down. I got burnt this morning myself...
...Elder lives well on his followers' contributions, also runs housing projects, an employment agency, the Happy News Cafe. He denounces Father Divine as the "spirit of the devil incarnate," offers his followers no easy Divine-style heaven or sub-heavens. Instead, he warns them against being overoptimistic: "Some of you pilgrims think when you're buried that you'll wake up as white folks on Resurrection Day. Let me straighten you out on that right now. If you plant an Irish pertater, you don't get no sweet pertater vine. When God plants a colored...