Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these blessings President "Bob"' LeTourneau thanks God. Last year he thanked Him 500 times before evangelist congregations to whom he preached free of charge. Weekly one of a coterie of ministers performs the same function for him in his Peoria plant's lunchroom for minor executives. To meet his preaching schedule he travels in his own eight-passenger Lockheed plane-big enough to carry a soprano known as "The Gospel Nightingale" and the (Negro) Carolina Gospel Quartet. Dirt-mover LeTourneau calls his church the Christian Missionary Alliance, and has preaching engagements for the next 14 months...
...ceremonies: Herbert Hoover. LeTourneau contribution to the Finnish Relief Fund: $6,000. For World War II Earth Man LeTourneau has had French and English orders for 300 scrapers (60 are already in bombproof shelters at French airports, ready to level the fields after bombings). Pleased with his success, shrewd Evangelist LeTourneau says: "The more time I spent in serving God, the more the business grew . . . Amen, Brother...
...large crowd further swelled by a number assembled to say farewell to a departing evangelist), delivered ten formal addresses, held eleven big press conferences, appeared at ten scheduled receptions, and shaken hands with 15,000 voters. He had collected two ten-gallon hats, a case of canned corn, had watched the dance of the Nez Percé Indians and had been serenaded in Portland, Ore., by a fife & drum corps of Civil War veterans whose leader was 95. His secretary, yclept Lemoyne Jones in the effete East, became plain Lem Jones as soon as he was west of the mountains...
...years Evangelist Frank Clarry preached & practiced the Golden Rule. Often had he read aloud from Corinthians I (Chapter XIII, verse 1): "Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not charity. . . ." Often his daughter Dorothy heard him. She became an evangelist, too. Last month, aged 75, when crossing a Manhattan street against a red light, Frank Clarry was killed by Negro Motorist Moe Crawford. Moe was charged with homicide, clapped into the Tombs. Dorothy Clarry got the charge dismissed. Said she: "The poor fellow wasn't to blame." She visited his wife and four children...