Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sparkplug of Youth Films is muscular, ash-blond Rev. Borland P. Dryer, 36, a boy evangelist grown up, who spent his youth traveling with such famous spellbinders as Billy Sunday and Uldine Utley, later studied at several universities. One day Dryer faced the fact that more people were going to movie houses than to churches. "We were missing the boat," he says. "The visual image was here to stay...
Died. The Rev. Paul Dwight Moody, 68, onetime president of Middlebury College (1921-42), ex-senior chaplain of the A.E.F., son of the late famed Evangelist Dwight L. Moody; of a heart attack; in Shrewsbury...
Died. Gipsy Rodney Smith, 87, British evangelist whose gently persuasive voice pulled hundreds of thousands of repentant sinners to camp meeting altars all over the world for five decades; of a heart attack; on board the U.S.-bound Queen Mary...
...unity than the 80th's record on foreign affairs. For that record, Arthur Vandenberg was largely responsible. And Congress had demonstrated resolution in some of its handling of domestic affairs. The Republicans had begun the session by refusing to seat Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, Mississippi's evangelist of racial discrimination. In passing and then re-passing the Taft-Hartley labor bill over the President's veto, Republicans and Democrats both (but mainly Republicans) had ignored the clamor from labor and also from the extreme right. The 80th had re-established the sovereignty of the legislative process...
...that both the Eubanks faction and the leftist "independent-progressive" wings were stronger than he. For Murray's office, the Eubanks crowd put up 38-year-old Harry Martin, amusement editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Leftists entered 41-year-old Willard Shelton, onetime editor of the Christian Evangelist, now a Washington correspondent for Manhattan...