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...Indianapolis, the Methodist Ministerial Association asked station WFBM-TV to have two of its announcers stop quaffing beer on the TV screen because they "unconsciously do our children such harm as years cannot remove...
...grandfather's farm in western Tennessee. Educated at the University of Arkansas and Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. (B.A. 1918). Served overseas in World War I as an Army Medical Corpsman. After studying in Scotland at the University of Aberdeen, received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Southern Methodist University in 1921, later got his first D.D. (honoris causa) at Hendrix...
Church Career: Ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church (South) in 1921. He held city pastorates in Texas and Arkansas for 17 years, was once pastor of Dallas' roomy First Methodist Church (membership: 5,200). Elected a bishop in 1938, he presided over the Pacific Area (1939), then the Kansas-Nebraska Area (1939-48) of the Methodist Church. Since 1948 has been resident bishop of the Dallas-Fort Worth Area, a stronghold of U.S. Methodism. Already a vice president of the Methodist Council of Bishops, he is also scheduled to become presiding bishop of the Methodist Church next year...
Recently Maguire put up money to help distribute Iron Curtain over America, by Southern Methodist University Professor John Beaty, a book that the oldest Methodist Church periodical in the U.S., Zion's Herald, calls the "most extensive piece of racist propaganda in the history of the anti-Semitic movement in America." He has also been a supporter of such propagandists as Merwin K. Hart, and worked with Allen A. Zoll, whose American Patriots, Inc. was listed by the U.S. Attorney General as a "Fascist" organization. Zoll at first was an account executive handling the Mercury's ads, later...
After almost two years in a Communist jail (including 14 months in solitary confinement), the last U.S. Methodist missionary in China* came home last week. The Rev. Francis Olin Stockwell, 52, of Perry, Okla., first went to China in 1929, and for 15 years was treasurer of the West China Methodist Conference, with headquarters at Chengtu. In the fall of 1950, the Communists arrested him for "espionage." From then on, he was subjected to a determined "brainwashing" treatment...