Word: methodistly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Superintendent. There were no new faces, no new ideas. The League, predicting the return of national Prohibition, reaffirmed its "historic program." In this atmosphere of standpattism, Homer Rodeheaver. the late Billy Sunday's song leader, was the life of the party. He had a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South clapping his hands and shouting approval when he intoned: Repeal has failed. It was all in vain. The old saloon is back again, Tho' it's called another name, It's a hellhole just the same, For it damns men in their shame. . . . Another...
...house of Bitting & Co., specialist in church bond issues. Two summers ago, acting for his bondholders, Mr. Bitting set about trying to recover as much as possible of some $3,000,000 in issues floated for and defaulted by the house's most vexatious clients, organizations of the Methodist Episcopal Church (TIME, July 30, 1934). Year ago one of these issues was up for argument in U. S. District Court in Portland, Ore. After adjourning one day, Judge James Alger Fee, as a layman, remarked...
...this kind, to come from men preaching the Religion of God, is not understandable. The position held by the Church in the minds and hearts of men would be greatly shaken, no matter which way this case may be decided. If the case is won by the plaintiffs, the Methodist Episcopal Church will be branded as having tried, without success, to get out of a just obligation. . . . On the other hand, if it should be found necessary to decide this case in favor of the defense, the Church would be relieved of a great financial burden, it is true...
Almost alone of all the first-rate artists who have painted, drawn and graven the War is Kerr Eby, in that he actually served in the line. Tall, grey-haired and 46, he was born in Tokyo, son of a Methodist missionary. Four dollars a week as a lithographer helped put him through art school in Manhattan. He went to France with the A.E.F. camouflage service, was attached to innumerable artillery regiments, never rose above sergeant's rank...
...well after disunion. From 1880 to 1895 Sullivan designed more than 100 buildings. In the 29 years left of his life, he built only some 20 more. One reason given is liquor. Another is that he could not compromise himself artistically for a client. He built a Methodist Episcopal Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Just before the War he began putting up small banks in the Corn Belt. They remain among the finest things from his drafting board. The one at Sidney, Ohio, erected in 1917, had airconditioning...