Word: gospelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following that gleam up & down the West Scheduled to make two speeches on one July day, he delivered seven when great crowds blocked the highway between Tulsa and Oklahoma City. For six August days m the State of Washington, 20,000 listeners per day turned out to hear his gospel of salvation. In Portland, Ore. he preached...
Turning to less exalted matters Dr Townsend mentioned the need of "a half million dollars per month" to carry the gospel to the East & South, offered his followers a homely example: "Mrs. Townsend and I ... meet our club dues liberally by the simple expedient of refusing to part with any pennies that come into our possession until 'dues day' and then turn in our collection of red money. Thus for this month more than 200 Indianhead coins have come into our possession...
...golf courses, country clubs, hotels, homes, public buildings. Payrolls of Coral Gables Corp. were $200,000 per week and the advertising and publicity departments were each spending $2,000,000 per year. Any visitor with the remotest claim to fame was wined, dined and dunned with the Coral Gables gospel. Even William Jennings Bryan was persuaded to lecture on Coral Gables' bright sun and blue waters. And in one twelve-month period Coral Gables Corp. sold no less than $98,000,000 worth of property. Much of it was never paid...
...Crawford declared she was healed of eye trouble, lung trouble, a deformity, and an internal ailment. She founded a mission in a Portland blacksmith shop, began preaching against divorce and remarriage. She firmly advocated tithing, explaining to her followers that the Gospel is against life insurance, labor unions, lodges, the cinema, bobbed hair, stylish garb and other extravagances. Thriving on tithes plus free-will offerings at meetings, the Apostolic Faith now has $500,000 worth of property, a printing plant, a Live Gospel Mission ("Brightest Spot in Portland"), others in Norway, Sweden, South Africa and Bowling Green, Ky. Treasurer...
...McIntyre of Gallipolis, Ohio is probably the most widely read columnist in the U.S. His "New York Day By Day," in which for 23 years he has maintained the attitude of an overgrown and somewhat elfin country boy viewing the Big City's glitter with vague mistrust, is gospel to countless millions of credulous readers in nearly every town big enough to have a daily newspaper. But of all the 400-odd places receiving "New York Day By Day," Manhattan shows least interest. Likewise, the vast army of O. O. McIntyre's admirers includes very few members...