Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...religious agencies which do. Among them: Commission on Aliens & Prisoners of War, Committee on the Conscientious Objector, Committee on Overseas Relief & Reconstruction. Member groups are assessed not according to size but to income. Thus the Protestant Episcopal Church chips in a good deal more per person than the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church...
...moved to send a congratulatory wire to a couple of radio comics who had involved him in the plot of a script: so George Burns & Gracie Allen had the Presidential endorsement: "We all enjoyed the show immensely. . . ." Bess Truman and Daughter Margaret won applause from the Chenango Street Methodist Church of Binghamton, N.Y., which paid happy tribute to "the courage that you . . . showed [at a Manhattan banquet] when you ordered orange juice instead of cocktails...
...Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of New York, liberal, plain-spoken president of the U.S. Federal Council of Churches...
...Said New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: "It will be widely read and will re-emphasize the place of the Bible in everyday life...
...Lenox Hill Hospital, where he was recovering from influenza, bull-necked Bob Wagner was baptized in the faith of Rome by Msgr. Robert F. Keegan, director of the New York archdiocese's Catholic Charities. Though born a Lutheran (in Nastatten, Germany) and raised in the U.S. a Methodist, Senator Wagner's conversion occasioned no surprise. His wife, who died in 1919, was a Catholic; his son, Robert Jr. was brought up as a Catholic. Obviously, Convert Wagner had been considering the move for some time. Said Msgr. Keegan's assistant after the ceremony: "He told me that...