Word: gideons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year later, joined by an insurance man named Will D. Knights, Salesmen Nicholson & Hill resolved to organize a Christian society of drummers. Unable to agree upon a name, they prayed together until Insurance Man Knights arose, exclaimed: ''The Christian Commercial Travelers' Association! The Gideons!" Opening his Bible he read from Judges how the Lord had placed a sword in the hand of Gideon, "a man who was willing to do exactly as God wanted...
...until 1908 did the Gideons begin to make their name famed by putting free Bibles in hotels and hospitals. Since then Bible-giving has become their one big job. They have given away 1,300,000 at an average cost of $1, today boast that sooner or later they find donations to fulfill all requests with neat volumes now bound in whiskey-proof keratol. Until last week all three founders were still active in business and Gideon affairs. Then Death came to Samuel Eugene Hill, 70, in Beloit, Wis. To the funeral went Insurance Man Knights, 83, of Wild Rose...
...Weir laughed. But the young man's rapid-fire self-sales-talk continued until Steelman Weir cried: "You've sold yourself to me." Following week, the new Weirton salesman brought in a $1,000,000 order. On the road for the next few years, he assiduously read Gideon Bibles in hotels, sold so much steel that in 1929 he was made assistant sales manager, later assistant to the president, finally vice president. Forthright, aggressive Mr. Millsop has been in actual charge of Weirton since last summer, when the late President John C. Williams became fatally ill. A good...
...mineral waters of Saratoga Springs. American "Continentals," sickened, wounded and soiled by the Revolutionary War, went there to cleanse and heal themselves. After the Revolution George Washington, whose wife spent considerable part of her wartime grass-widowhood at Virginia's warm springs, tried to buy Saratoga Springs, failed. Gideon Putnam bought 300 acres around the springs, built a hotel, made the place a health resort. In 1825 John Clarke, who started the first soda fountain in Manhattan, began to bottle and sell carbonated water from Saratoga. By 1883 Saratoga hotels had a capacity of 12,500, sheltered...
...universal war will occur Judge Rutherford is vague. Few years ago he came a cropper by prophesying such a cataclysm for 1928. Two years later he deeded in perpetuity a ten-room house, two-car garage and a pair of automobiles in San Diego, Calif, to King David, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, Samuel and other Biblical worthies, declaring he was confident they would shortly reappear on earth (TIME, March...