Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago Mrs. Fitzsimmons, a now destitute professional evangelist, sought unsuccessfully last week a permit to exhume her husband, to remove both the diamonds and their platinum settings...
...Greenwood, City building-inspector at Tucson, Ariz., sought Evangelist McPherson last week, and declared in the presence of Detective Chief Clive of Los Angeles that he recognized her as a woman whom he had seen on the street in Tucson during her "disappearance...
...Ormiston, adept operator of the Angelus Temple radio, unaccountably absent for some weeks, was likewise present at Los Angeles last week, but was not communicative as to where he had been. His wife recently sailed for Australia after filing divorce papers in which the name of Evangelist McPherson is bruited to be conspicuous...
...more than a month since Aimee Semple McPherson, famed and wealthy evangelist, owner and builder of the $1,000,000 Angelus Temple, Los Angeles, dove into mystery through a broken wave (TIME, June 7). She was taking her second dip of a June afternoon; her secretary sat reading on the beach; thousands of people were bathing all round her, but with that dive Aimee McPherson vanished as completely as if she had stepped through a looking-glass into the Never-Never Land. Last week Aimee McPherson, in a gingham gown spattered with mud, tottered into the police-office of Douglas...
When scrutinized, Evangelist McPherson's account seemed not to jibe with the discovery of a one-piece bathing suit identified as hers in her automobile, shortly after she disappeared. She made no mention of having been hastily divested of that garment in order that the kidnappers might spirit it into her car before driving off with her to Mexico. Moreover, Evangelist McPherson was not markedly sunburned, last week, though she described vividly her sufferings while crossing burning sands. Speaking from her pulpit at Angelus Temple, she compared her escape to that of Daniel from the lions...