Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through the ceiling, and the wind worried at the rags and papers stuffed into broken window panes. Squirrels scuttled in & out of the root, and the lights no longer worked. For the ten or 15 oldsters in their 703 or beyond who persisted in coming to worship at the Methodist Church's down-at-heel Fletcher Chapel, there was a plain choice: fix up or give up. That was four years...
...with a touch of culture. Dallas' Cokesbury Book Store staked out a claim as the biggest in the U.S. It made no difference to Cokesbury that Manhattan's Brentano's and Macy's disputed the claim. With hymn and prayer befitting its ownership by the Methodist Church,* and with typical Texasity, the block-long, five-story Cokesbury opened a three-story addition and plugged away at surpassing its sales of $1,635,000, profits of $140,000 during its last fiscal year...
...time. He called up the six churches in his area (five Protestant and one Roman Catholic) and told them he would give free cab rides to anyone who wanted to go to church on Sunday morning. Last week, after two Sundays of free rides, Cabman Gray, son of a Methodist minister, could report that his idea was a solid success...
Such recoveries are not new to Atlas Corp. or to slim, smart Floyd Bostwick Odium. Confident and ice-cool, Odium has ridden through many a ruckus chiefly by saying nothing and letting his critics talk themselves out. The son of a Midwestern Methodist minister, Odium went to Wall Street in 1917, bought & sold so shrewdly that he was boss of an investment company with assets of $14 million by the time he was 37. During the depression he snapped up bargains, now has holdings in some 30 companies through his Atlas Corp. He earned the name "Fifty Percent Odium" because...
Died. Helen Emily Springer, 81, who shared her Methodist bishop husband's missionary work for 44 years, traveled extensively throughout Southern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo, where she devised the first written medium for three native languages so that she could translate Christian literature into the vernacular; in Mulungwishi, Belgian Congo...