Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of resourceful drys (led by the W.C.T.U.) has continually and noisily nagged Congress for immediate nationwide prohibition. But another group, shrewdly piloted by the politically seasoned Anti-Saloon League and the potent Methodist Board of Temperance, prefers to work quietly and without publicity in a campaign to dry up individual counties through local-option laws and gradually elect Congressmen favorable to their cause. Many of the nation's 100-odd dry organizations energetically employ both techniques...
...clock on the days mentioned below. January 24, Rev. Prentiss L. Pemberton, Baptist; January 25, Rev. Frederick B. Kellogg, Episcopalian; January 26, Rev. Cecil H. Rose, Presbyterian; January 27, Rev. Leonard G. Clough, Congregational; January 28, Rev. D. J. Fitzpatrick, Roman Catholic; January 31, Rev. Hobart F. Goewey, Methodist; February 2, Rev. Irving R. Murray, Unitarian; February 3, Rev. Edmund A. Steimle, Lutheran; February 4, Judah J. Shapiro, Hillel Foundation...
Prime mover against this unchristian hoodlumism was a Methodist, Dr. Allen E. Claxton of the Broadway Temple. He organized an interfaith (Christian and Jewish) group, got 90% of Washington Heights Protestant pastors to preach Sunday sermons against antiSemitism, carry on a day-by-day agitation for religious and racial tolerance. Recognizing that anti-Semitism is not wholly a one-sided matter, the rabbis in the group will also preach to their Jewish congregations on tolerance. Children will receive special instruction at Sunday schools and recreation centers...
...Methodist. Though J. Arthur Rank is a director of some 60 British companies, he sums up his accomplishments in twelve lines in the British Who's Who. In this respect he is just four times as expansive as his fabled father, "England's Richest Man," Joseph ("Old Joe") Rank, who parlayed a tiny flour mill into a ?20-30,000,000 milling fortune, and died at 89 last month (TIME, Nov. 22). Besides his millions and his milling business, Old Joe handed down his passion for the Methodist faith and a shrewd and tidy sense...
...Methodist inheritance was the one that got J. Arthur Rank into the movies. Some 15 years ago he became concerned about the low and meager state of religious cinema, and organized the Religious Film Society, Ltd. He began making movies for Methodists. (He still teaches Sunday school in Reigate...