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...with the aid of Governor Bilbo during a previous term, elevated to the Speakership where he served eight years. Later he and Governor Bilbo quarreled politically, which accounts for the skeleton. Off the stump Mr. Conner is a good-natured, well-to-do, cultured gentleman, a member of the Methodist Church, owner of the finest private law library in the State...
...Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Economist, researcher, newsman close to G. O. P. insurgency, Mr. Manly was doing his favorite work as the special agent of the Senate Slush Fund Committee. His job was to find out what Bishop Cannon had done with almost $100,000 contributed for Democratic use in Virginia against Alfred Emanuel Smith in the 1928 campaign. The Bishop had juggled his accounts beyond all senatorial comprehension and then successfully defied the Committee's demand for an explanation under the Corrupt Practices Act. What Investigator Manly was principally trying to trace through a jungle of bank trans...
Principal other Protestant groups in Italy are the British Wesleyan Methodists, the U. S. Southern Baptists, and the ancient, native Waldensian Church. But none of these has so recently irritated the Vatican as has the Methodist Episcopal Church. Two incidents especially caused His Holiness to plan last week a new campaign (but to make public no details...
Having last week settled his difficulties with the Italian Government (see p. 24), His Holiness Pope Pius XI turned his thoughts to an old problem: Protestant proselytizing in Italy, where there are 42 Methodist Episcopal Churches, 5,000 communicants and 2,000 Sunday School pupils. Partially supported by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Church in the U. S., these churches are guided by Italian ministers but looked after by the U. S. The Italian Government permits registered Italian Methodist ministers, as well as Roman Catholic priests, to perform marriages, funeral services and other sacraments. In Rome the Methodist...
...Tagliacozzo, not far from Rome, Italians returned from the U. S. are building a Methodist Church. They put a King James Bible in its cornerstone, sent a salutatory telegram to Benito Mussolini...