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Word: michaux (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aviation Corp., Tom Girdler's Republic Steel, altogether more than a score of corporations. His annual income: "Call it about $50,000 a year." He also belonged to the American Red Cross and the Boy Scouts of America and was an honorary deacon in Elder Solomon Lightfoot Michaux's Negro Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Everybody Loves a Fat Man | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

Thus, as he will every week for the next year, Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux took his famed Radio Church of God from its Washington, D.C., tabernacle to Manhattan "to open a second front against the Satanic kingdom." For singing the devil and hell out of a town, Elder Michaux-self-styled "General of the International Forces of Right against Wrong"-has at least one solid endorsement: successive police chiefs in Washington have declared his preaching reduces crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Second Front in Harlem | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...Michaux disciples must avoid "rum, rowdy women, slot machines and big talk." But excitement is provided them at the Elder's services. "That was a great mass meeting we had this morning, pilgrims," says the Elder when his congregation has really cut loose. "You can always tell when the Holy Ghost and fire come down. I got burnt this morning myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Second Front in Harlem | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

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