Word: preacher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Autos. In the driver's seat of United Automobile Workers of America is erratic Homer Martin, who has steered his union to contracts with all the major motormen save Henry Ford. That ex-Preacher Martin is a better evangelist than administrator is equally unfortunate...
...Nazarene preacher named S. T. Brogdon, out to be Governor of Texas, closed his campaign for the Democratic nomination last week. So did State Attorney General William McCraw of Dallas, Railroad Commissioner Ernest O. Thompson of Amarillo, Oilman Tom F. Hunter of Wichita Falls, seasoned campaigners all. And so, to the grief of all these gentlemen, did Flour Salesman Wilbert Lee O'Daniel of Fort Worth (TIME, July 25). At Kilgore, on the night before primary day, Candidate O'Daniel struck up his hillbilly band, introduced Children Pat, Molly & Mike, who sang "Please Pass the Biscuits, Pappy," declaimed...
...saloonkeeper who became a preacher after his saloon, ''Old 410" (No. 410 East Douglas Street, Wichita), was smashed by Carrie Nation on one of her first rampages, Gerald Winrod was obscure until 1935 when, after a trip to Germany, he blossomed out as proprietor of the Capitol News & Feature Service of Washington, D. C., alleged by proletarians to be financed by German Nazi money and watched over by the German Embassy. Through The Defender (organ of Winrod's "Defenders of the Christian Faith"), which now claims 110,000 circulation, and his own big personal mailing list...
...found the right man to bring Imperial Airways up to snuff. That man was starchy, six-foot-six Sir John Charles Walsham Reith, a dour, egg-headed, ascetic Aberdonian who since 1922 has had his puritanical thumb on the destinies of the British Broadcasting Corp. Son of a preacher, trained as a Clydeside engineer, he got his job with B.B.C. by the improbable method of answering a want ad for a general manager...
...year ago the United Automobile Workers, their youthful ex-preacher president, Homer Martin, their strapping and scrappy organizer, Richard Frankensteen, were stars in the drama of renascent U. S. Labor and in the crown of John L. Lewis' C.I.O. Since then nearly half of U.A.W.'s 400,000 members have been laid off and U.A.W.'s high command has been riven by a bitter political feud. If John L. Lewis could do nothing about the first difficulty, he could try to mend the second. So last week he welcomed both parties, which had split half-&-half...