Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emergency Call. Almost everything in handsome, blond, 32-year-old James Wesley McClain's early life fitted him to be Doctor I. Q. His father was a voice teacher in Louisville, Ky. His mother was a church organist. At Southern Methodist University, McClain majored in English and public speaking, made the varsity debating team. This led to the Dallas Little Theatre, then to an announcer's job for Station WFAA, Dallas. In 1940 Chicago's Grant Advertising Agency made him director of all its radio activities. A year later, in an emergency, he stepped into the agency...
There was no telling what might be going on, these summer nights, down by the Deben and under the scented hedgerows of Woodbridge. She spoke with Mrs. Juby, the Methodist minister's wife. They decided to organize the Voluntary Vigilantes. Last weekend, just at dark, a dozen earnest matrons equipped with brand-new hats and armbands patrolled in pairs. From time to time their torches (flashlights) stabbed the soft gloom of Suffolk's night. But they found nothing. Undaunted and unconvinced, they decided to make their rounds a little later next time. Explained Mrs. Juby: "Girls everywhere like...
Were Hoffmann in this vicinity, here's one Methodist who'd join his parish...
Against Injustice. Biggest of U.S. Protestant churches, Methodism (membership : 8,000,000) has long been the most active and vocal in advocating social and economic reform. Since 1907 the Methodist Federation for Social Service has worked against all forms of social injustice. More & more Bishop Oxnam, 52, has become the voice of the Federation. He also takes a part in editing Methodism's Social Creed (updated every four years at the Church's General Conference...
...Union. His admiration for Russia earned him a page and a half in Elizabeth Dilling's The Red Network. In 1936, when Dr. Oxnam was made Bishop of the Omaha Area, Mrs. Billing got out a special anti-Oxnam pamphlet which messengers distributed at Omaha's eight Methodist churches...