Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sponsor of the pinko American League for Peace & Democracy, David B. Vaughan, a divisional chief of the BEW, sued Congressman Martin Dies for $75,000 libel damages. The only organizations he belongs to, protested Vaughan, are the Society for Advancement of Management, the Society for Personnel Administration and the Methodist Church...
...Only one Methodist minister in 50 has stayed at any one church more than five years in the two decades since...
...would be more attractive than CRIMSON reporters, she admitted slyly, "Could be. Although I've known several Harvard men," she continued, "I've never had a date with one. You see, I was born in Texas, so went out with boys from Texas A. and M. and Southern Methodist. John Green, the conductor of the orchestra for the show, and the doctor I went to see last week were both Harvard men, though, and both are very attractive...
...outburst was occasioned by the refusal of Wilbraham Academy, oldest Methodist school in America, to admit the fully qualified son of one of its own Negro alumni.* The alumnus is Robert Shaw Wilkinson Jr., a Manhattan surgeon. He and his brother both graduated from Wilbraham with highest honors-the first pair of brothers to achieve this distinction in the history of the school...
...seen a Sunday game. Born in Stockdale, Ohio, he taught country school and then, with $68 saved from his $35-a-month salary, he went to Ohio Wesleyan, where he was a star ballplayer, graduated in 1906, still serves on its board of trustees. Branch Rickey is a working Methodist: he doesn't drink or cuss. His greatest oath is "Judas Priest." Not only has he an encyclopedic knowledge of the professional skills and foibles of the 500-odd ballplayers he controls, but he keeps an extensive tab on their private morals...