Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plewman is Canada's only first-rate public military analyst. His integrity is a legend in Canada. Born in Bristol, England, son of a Methodist leatherworker, Plewman emigrated to the Dominion with his family when he was eight, in school and church set a long-standing record for juvenile deportment. Not long after he went to work as a reporter, he stood for vice president of the Toronto Press Club, put up posters reading: "Plewman for Vice." Up went placards by his rival: "What does Plew man know about vice?" He was defeated...
...First Methodist Church...
...were 160 again. The city smoldered. The foreign quarter, Chungking University, Government buildings, the teeming shopping sector-these were the "military objectives" the Japanese announced they had attacked. On the fourth day 54 planes came; on the fifth, 52. The U. S. gunboat Tutuila was narrowly missed. The American Methodist Mission...
...town newspaper services. W.N.U. is the oldest, biggest syndicate in the U. S., with more clients than all other syndicates combined. Now an $8,300,000 corporation, it began with eight customers in 1865 as the A. N. Kellogg Newspaper Co. Pat Patterson,* Missouri-born, son of an itinerant Methodist minister, turned up in Chicago, aged 19, and landed a job at $10 a week reading and clipping papers for Kellogg. For ten years Patterson turned out twelve columns a week on travel, household hints, agricultural news, women's fashions...
...years. ... In such a situation, can any Christian or any American be neutral?" - In Albany, N. Y., Bishop George Ashton Oldham (Episcopal) went Bishop Manning one better. The word "neutrality," said he, is "an abhorrent thing," and "isolation" is "a dangerous anachronism." ∧ Proclaimed Dr. Colder Lawrence (Methodist) of Tulsa, Okla.: "I hold with Thomas Mann that 'Christianity and Democracy deal with the same human stuff' ... I believe we should go in the war." His fellow Tulsan, the Rev. Edward Henry Eckel Jr. (Episcopal) quoted Dean Inge: "It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor...