Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While the Methodist Church plumped once more for prohibition...
...colored by Indian atmosphere, and flavored with country feasting. He was Lieut. Ernest Childers (himself three parts Indian and one part Irish), who, like Kelly, had earned the Congressional Medal of Honor in Italy. For him, too, there were parades, speeches, and a lunch in the basement of the Methodist Church. But Childers' homecoming was most memorable for a reminiscent evaluation of his fighting qualities given by his 55-year-old half brother, Walter Childers. Said Brother Walter: "He would never cause no trouble, never would take none. Not very bad about fighting, not pick one and wouldn...
Then Congressman Vorys went home to his tasks as a board member of Columbus' Broad Street Methodist Church, to a stack of letters from businessmen's organizations asking for more information on foreign policy and for speeches about his proposals. He summed them up in a letter to a friend: "We need more Methodists and more businessmen in our foreign affairs, pumping more idealism and common sense into our plans...
...unions and the war's end had tied up business in naval stores. One of eight children, Lillian Smith studied in Piedmont College, Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory, Columbia University. In 1922 she went to China (where her brother-in-law was American head of the Y.M.C.A.), taught Methodist hymns to Chinese moppets in revolutionary Hu-chow, just as the Chinese revolution was reaching the boiling point...
...Roman Catholic and Jewish quotas are well filled, but the Protestant quota lags. Chief of Army Chaplains William R. Arnold has no such problem. Last week Roman Catholic Chaplain Arnold reported that the Army is "about on schedule" with "approximately 7,000" chaplains in service. Only the Methodist Church is "very short." The Army recently upped all denominational quotas 35% so that chaplaincies left unfilled by one church may be filled by candidates from another church which has already made up its own quota...