Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hearth tender, steel company cost accountant, union local president and now a lecturer in industrial relations at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wearing an open-neck sport shirt and studding his shop lingo with four-letter words, Joe Scanlon looks and sounds like anything but what he is: a fervent evangelist for the mutual interests of labor and management, who knows how to sell the idea to both sides. His selling device: the Scanlon Plan, designed to 1) cut the worker in on the adventure, the decisions and the profits of increased production, and 2) help management tap the ingenuity...
Steaming back into the U.S. after a 4½-month European crusade, Evangelist Billy Graham immediately fired a shot heard across the Atlantic. Said he: "Morals in Scandinavia are very low - particularly sexual morals." His fire was promptly returned. Snapped one of Denmark's own moral crusaders, Lutheran Pastor Boerge Hjerl-Hansen : "Before throwing stones, Graham ought to think twice. After all, he is a citizen of the country where the Kinsey Report was published." ∙∙∙ Discharged from suburban Washing ton's Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he was laid up after his heart attack (TIME, July...
...conditioned building in Tulsa, an office staff of 155 keeps tab on Roberts' highly organized Healing Waters Inc., using row upon row of files and machines to sort and answer thousands of letters that pour in daily, handling magazine, tract and book distribution and keeping books on the evangelist's thriving financial affairs. On the road, another staff of twelve rolls across country in eight stainless-steel truck trailers. Their cargo: a 200-by-360-ft. tent that Roberts claims is the largest evangelistic tent in the world, an aluminum preaching platform that can hold 60 people...
...personally asked him, in audible tones, to win a million souls by July 1, 1956. This theophanous request-especially with a deadline-might give pause to many a lesser man, but it is made to order for the special talents of the Rev. Oral Roberts, 37-year-old evangelist and faith healer and the U.S.'s newest religious comet...
...know Beelee Graham, the American clairvoyant?" Thanks to a wave of advance publicity and hundreds of portrait posters pasted throughout Paris and the provinces, most Frenchmen thought they knew who Billy was. The fact that few precisely understood his religious role or the meaning of his evangelistic crusade did not prevent them from according him a hysterical, slightly disoriented acclaim that surprised no ons more than the handsome evangelist...