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...most noteworthy Republican event of the week took place at Indianapolis, Ind. There a convention assembled to nominate candidates, heard a new Republican Keynote sounded by Representative Bruce Barton. Mr. Barton, famed advertising man (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn) and amateur evangelist (author of The Man Nobody Knows), has become fascinated by politics since Manhattan's silk stocking district elected him to Congress last year. Said he last week...
Died. William Ashley Sunday Jr., 37, second son of the late Evangelist Billy Sunday; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles...
...Tabernacles"; by Dr. Straton the "Joan of Arc of the modern religious world." This reverend miss once declared: "If I were a man, I'd never marry a woman preacher. They declaim too much." But two years ago a shoe salesman named Wilbur Eugene Langkop heard Evangelist Utley preach in Quincy, 111., drove her to Hannibal, Mo., followed her thereafter on the preaching tours she makes in the Midwest, since she has no permanent pastorate. Ignoring her advice, Salesman Langkop last week plighted his troth to the Terror of the Tabernacles in Manhattan's famed Episcopal Little Church...
...probably influenced by the romance," said Evangelist Utley in explaining why she married in a church not of her own denomination. She instructed the Little Church's organist, however, to play her favorite revival songs - Rose of Sharon, In My Heart There Rings a Melody-during the ceremony. Rev. Randolph Ray, urbane rector of the Little Church, appeared pleased at the chance to officiate for a "lady evangelist." Afterwards Mr. and Mrs. Langkop went to Old John Street Methodist Church, in downtown Manhattan, where she slipped on a black robe, assisted at the wedding of her 21-year...
...Welsh of U. S. district court, Frank Smith of common pleas, Thomas Bluett of municipal court. As he does whenever possible, Dr. Russell played prosecuting attorney. Dr. Russell and his audience were content to have Alcohol defended by Dr. Virgil P. Brock, Dr. Russell's associate, an evangelist. Called by Dr. Russell "as strong a case as possible" for liquor. Dr. Brock's line was that everyone should have personal liberty and that liquor pays taxes. He also pleaded Alcohol's case with: "If a man wants to drink and then go out for a drive...