Word: preach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worth their salt. Now all Norway, indeed all Scandinavian Lutheranism, knows the stuff of which Norway's clergy is made. The Church, standing firmly for the dignity of human freedom, has regained its lost prestige. Of the Church's clergymen, only 64 still function under Nazi domination, preach to benches largely deserted. The rest, six bishops and 797 pastors, gave up State salaries and public church functions about a year ago, still carry on their pastoral duties, but less openly...
Emulating the career of another famous flier, now all but forgotten, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker has returned to this country, almost a national deity, capitalizing on the role of a hero to preach a reactionary anti-labor doctrine. Professing to be the voice of 7,500,000 soldiers, he has, in their name, denounced labor unions, urging the control of all organized workers under company unions and the complete abolition of the closed shop. In addition, the veteran flier proposes that the returning soldiers be given a favored position over the ordinary worker...
...devil out, live right, read the Bible. Pastor Hall never asks for donations, but he gets enough for rent, food, rummage-sale clothes and stray dollars to give away "if the person seems worthy." When he tires, three elderly women spell him, but the Pastor is apt to preach from early morning to midnight. Says he: "My only worry is that I'm so happy I hate to go to bed at night...
Long retired from parish work, he sits all day in his cramped flat off Manhattan's Times Square. In the last 20 months, 140,000 people, simply by dialing his phone number (Circle 6-6483), have heard Mr. Hall preach a sermon...
...Elder first felt the call to preach in 1917 while peddling fish near Norfolk. That very night he got some friends together, established a church. Ten years later he moved to Washington. Soon he was broadcasting regularly with his 156-voice chorus, which has been compared favorably with the virtuoso Hall Johnson Choir. For years he has taken over Washington's Griffith Stadium each Sunday night during the summer, drawn crowds of 10,000 to 40,000 with a heavy sprinkling of whites...