Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspapers. Numerous normal politicians were running for office but the only candidate whose name the rest of the country heard was Rev. Gerald Burton Winrod. He is 39, a grey-eyed, deep-voiced radio spellbinder from Wichita, with black hair like William Jennings Bryan's, an evangelist whose congregation is "the entire United States and Canada." Because it looked last week as though Mr. Winrod might win the Republican nomination for Senator from three less colorful opponents, Chairman John D. M. Hamilton of the Republican National Committee clarioned...
...leaped and squatted with ardor, preparing for big stage events with which the Festival wall close next month. Present besides High Priestesses Graham, Humphrey and Holm, High Priest Weidman, were portly, dachshund-toting Louis Horst, patriarch of the movement, prim N. Y. Times Dance Critic John Martin, its principal evangelist. While London's ballet world was rent in a grand écart, Bennington's modern dancers heaved together in a lusty assembl...
...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...
...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...