Word: paden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, Paden and his helpers had new temporary visas, due to expire on March...
Their leader, tall, shock-haired Cline Paden, 30, from Lubbock, Texas, had gone to Italy in 1947 and found the country "sorely in need of material and spiritual help." With his brother Harold and eleven helpers, Evangelist Paden concentrated on the town of Frascati, four miles from the Pope's summer residence at Castel Gandolfo...
Stoutly denying any concern with politics, Evangelist Paden appealed to U.S. Ambassador James Dunn for help. In Dallas, 800-odd Churches of Christ members assembled, and 378 signed a protesting telegram to Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Texas Congressman Ed Gossett went with a delegation to the State Department where, he said, he warned officials that "if the Italian government runs this orphanage out of Italy, it may have a serious effect on congressional action on European aid funds...