Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grass, the old man would stand up on the buggy seat and exhort passing citizens-workers from the foundries, the machine shops, the glass factories, attendants at the State Insane Asylum, farmers from Stark County-to vote for him as Republican nominee for Mayor. With the fervor of an evangelist promising heaven, the old campaigner in his stand-up collar and wide-brimmed black hat promised Massillon a new municipal water works and reduced water rates if he were elected...
Married. Rolf McPherson, 18, son of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; and one Lorna Dee Smith, 20, graduate of Evangelist McPherson's Four-Square Bible Class; in Angelus Temple at Los Angeles; by the groom's mother. Present at the wedding were 10,000 spectators. Missing from the wedding because she received no invitation Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, grandmother of the groom, whose three-week marriage to Guy Edward Hudson was annulled last week (TIME, July...
Seeking Annulment. Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, 57, mother of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; of her marriage to Rev. Guy Edward Hudson. After the ceremony on June 28 (TIME, July 6), a Mrs. Margaret Newton of Los Angeles, Calif. saw press photographs of the couple, recognized the groom as her legal husband. Last week she filed suit for divorce, while authorities prepared to charge Mr. Hudson with bigamy. Said "Ma" Kennedy at first: "Those other Janes better leave my man alone." Said she later: "I am out of his personal battles. From now on I'm going...
Married, Minnie A. ("Ma") Kennedy, 57, evangelist mother of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; and Rev. J. E. Hudson, onetime Manhattan businessman; by Rev. J. G. Gay, vice president of the bride's Everlasting Gospel Evangel Church (Olympia, Wash.); on the shores of artificial Lake Sacajawea, Wash. Said she: "The ceremony was performed in God's Great Outdoors . . . with His birds' songs in place of an orchestra." Later on newshawks found "Billy Sunday," her favorite horse, missing from her stables, concluded that she had galloped away on her honeymoon...
Another Chicago "story" of the week: that Evangelist Billy Sunday is a brother of Judge Adolph Joseph Sabath, having changed his name to Sunday some years ago because it "went better" when he was playing professional baseball (Chicago Cubs...