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...believe that sterilization is the only means of protecting our people from idiocy," said Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. "I have seen three generations of idiots in my own Temple and there is nothing to protect us from a fourth...
Hipping back & forth, letting her shoulder straps fall, she does a monstrously coy "stripteaser routine." She hits Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson with a rowdy song: "I'm Salvation Sadie from Avenue A, Vending salvation and making it pay," rolling her eyes with a huge suggestiveness that is wholly antiseptic...
That was in Manhattan. It was the spring the U. S. went to War. Night after night for ten weeks Rev. William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, No. 1 evangelist of his day, packed the 20,000-seat tabernacle John D. Rockefeller Jr. and others had provided for him. His loud acrobatics moved 100,000 sinners to "hit the trail...
...Jonesboro, Ark. (pop.: 10,326), home of Senator Hattie Caraway, two years ago it took National Guardsmen, armed with machine guns and tear bombs, to avert a pitched battle between two factions of Baptists (TIME, Sept. 21, 1931). Later two resolute evangelists each sought to become fulltime pastor of Jonesboro's Baptist Tabernacle. Last September Rev. Joe Jeffers and Rev. Dale S. Crowley were arrested for fistfighting. When Evangelist Jeffers installed a follower of his as Tabernacle janitor, Evangelist Crowley countered by obtaining a court order conceding the Tabernacle's pastorate to himself. Flourishing the order he entered...
Crowley departed, returned with a gun, shot him dead. Arrested for murder, Evangelist Crowley was hustled away lest Jonesboro's excitable Baptists cause more trouble. Last week he went on trial at Piggott (pop.: 1,885) before a jury of four Methodists, two Baptists, six nonchurchgoers. Defendant Crowley, pleading self-defense, said that the janitor pointed a gun at him. "My only impulse was to save my life and there came before me in a flash-my wife and babies. I believed my gun was my only hope." The Piggott jury deliberated three minutes, acquitted Evangelist Crowley...