Word: methodistly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Randolph Neal of Knoxville, who last week was defeated in his own forlorn race for the Senate.) After the Dayton furor, Tom Stewart returned to obscurity and to repeated re-election as attorney general in Tennessee's 18th judicial district. A competent trial lawyer, fanatical bird hunter, Methodist, he campaigned under Crump-McKellar direction simply as a Roosevelt New Dealer who would be sure to vote right. WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins, in Memphis attending a WPA conference, coolly declared: "WTPA workers have the right to vote and have civil liberties like anyone else. I don't see anything...
...rich-voiced, grey-haired Methodist minister who seldom mounts a pulpit, Miss Harkness teaches philosophy at Mount Holyoke College, is rated a top-notcher among U. S. theologians. Last week, calling the church "the last stronghold of male dominance," she told a Methodist Leadership School at Lake Junaluska, N. C.: "The fact that women frequently put their energies into channels which lie outside the church is often deplored by men who have the interests of the church at heart. . . . These other agencies offer women an opportunity for leadership, for creative expression . . . and in turn a recognition which they...
...Methodist, Congregational-Christian, Northern Baptist, Disciples of Christ, Quaker...
...imitators of the Anti-Mothball Society have yet been reported. But last week in Dublin, Ga., Rev. T. B. Seibenham put a notice SEATS FREE on his Centenary Methodist Church, on the chance that it might increase attendance. The sign attracted such an unaccustomed spate of worshipers that Mr. Seibenham took a second look at it. It had been altered to read: EATS FREE...
Most baseballers agree that Bill Mc-Kechnie, 50-year-old Methodist churchman, has done the most astounding managerial job in the major leagues this year. Signed last winter to manage last year's last-place Reds, Bill McKechnie transformed them from a 40-to-1 shot in April to a pennant possibility at midseason. On the Fourth of July, traditional halfway mark in the pennant race, the Reds last week were in fourth place, but were leading the National League in club batting average, had the leading pitcher (Vander Meer), leading batter (Lombardi), leading homerun hitter (Goodman, whose...