Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Kenneth G. Ormiston, 41, Los Angeles radio operator who figured in Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson's notorious 1926 "kidnapping"; after an appendectomy; in Los Angeles. Evangelist McPherson's story was that she had been snatched from a beach near Los Angeles, held captive in Mexico six weeks. The State spent $150,000 investigating the story, found five witnesses who testified they had seen her living at Carmel with Radioman Ormiston during the six weeks...
Angelinos rated Sister Aimee's 14th convention as one of her quietest; this year there was no street parade. Mrs. McPherson, hard as she works and well-gowned, flashing-eyed and well-preserved as she is at 46, is no longer the sole, monopolizing evangelist of California's poor in spirit. A plague of quarrels and lawsuits has rained upon her the year past, with her onetime lawyer, her one-time publicity woman, her onetime business manager, her daughter Roberta, her "Ma," Mrs. Kennedy, and finally with the equally flashing-eyed woman whom she hired as associate nearly...
Sirs: TIME'S reporting of the Shepard award to Evangelist Harry Ironside [TIME, Dec. 14] is of particular interest to those who knew this outstanding Fundamentalist during his years in Oakland...
About to set out from Chicago on an evangelistic tour one day late last July, a broad-shouldered little preacher turned to his secretary, exclaimed: "I just remembered. The American Tract Society asked me a year ago to write a treatise. Here the contest closes Sept. I and I haven't written a line!" With that Rev. Dr. Henry Allan Ironside grabbed a handful of pencils, a package of copy paper. On an eastbound train, he had a chapter ready to mail from Canton, Ohio. By the time Evangelist...
...accepted a call to Chicago's famed Moody Memorial Church. Booming three strictly orthodox homilies from this pulpit every Sunday and one on Friday, Harry Iron side still-maintains a full schedule of out side engagements for which he accepts any emolument offered. For all his Funda mentalism, Evangelist Ironside hand somely admits: "I know the King James's Version didn't fall from heaven bound in morocco...