Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifty Army Chaplains of the Methodist faith will attend a fellowship dinner and Communion at the Harvard Epworth Methodist Church to be held Monday; November 29. In the last three days two other denominational dinners have been held for members of the Nineteenth Class of the School...
...Methodist will be held in the Church dining room, while the Communion the main sanctuary of the church. Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, who is to be host at the dinner, will preside at the Communion...
Enthusiastic, rumple-haired Jerry Mann first entered Texas public life as star quarterback of Southern Methodist University's 1927 football team, when he was known as "Little Red Arrow." To be Governor, he must unseat incumbent Coke Stevenson, a goat-raising, small-town banker. Governor Stevenson has managed the State pretty well, keeping popular by sniping constantly at New Deal "bureaucracy" but not at Franklin Roosevelt. Stevenson's popularity was highest when he concentrated on gas rationing, which irks Texans living in sight of gushing oil wells...
Slaughtered Saints. The U.S. Italian Protestant ministers spoke not only for their own congregations (Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian), but for Italy's Protestants who cannot speak for themselves. Most of these are Waldensians who originated in 12th-Century France, have lived chiefly in the Piedmontese Alps for 650 years...
...Republican Joe R. ("Holy Joe") Hanley, 67, ex-jockey, ex-Chautauqua lecturer, ex-Methodist-Episcopal preacher, has served for 17 years as a legislator from Perry, N.Y. (pop. 4,468). Candidate Hanley sidled into his campaign with a mighty shove from Dewey's potent state machine. Said he: "Tom Dewey has said he is not a candidate [for President] . . . I have no reason to doubt his word. . . . If such a thing does happen, however, it is very vital that you have a Republican to go in there...