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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conspicuously absent was Winona Lake's most famed citizen, Presbyterian Evangelist William Ashley Sunday, 66. In recent years Mr. Sunday's vigor has diminished. He no longer exhorts as dramatically as in his heyday just after the War. Early last week he addressed the Miami Valley Chautauqua near Dayton, Ohio. Thence he hastened, past Winona Lake, to another of his homes in Hood River Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Sunday Town | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

Divorced. George Sunday, son of Evangelist William ("Hit-the-Sawdust-Trail") Sunday; by Mrs. Harriet May Sunday. Uncontested charges: he drank excessively, hit her, associated with other women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 5, 1930 | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

Aimee Semple McPherson, notorious Los Angeles Evangelist, made known that, as soon as she returns from an inspection of the Holy Land, she will make an audible cinema based on events in her episodic life. Beginning with her soul saving activities in China as a preacher's widow, the continuity will include the scene of her still dubious abduction. Emerging from the sea in a dripping green bathing suit, she will be deftly anesthetized by villains, whisked away to the Mexican desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 3, 1930 | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

Aimee Sample McPherson, Los Angeles soul saver, denied that she was going to marry Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, archangelic trombonist for Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, but admitted that he had given her a diamond ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 24, 1930 | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

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