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Word: preacher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diligently prayerful Methodist and a tireless preacher of Spartan virtues to indulgent Chinese is enterprising Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, the best man to head the Chinese Government in living memory. Last week he connected the Chicago of his country with its New Orleans, sent the first train chuffing 700 miles over the new line from Hankow to Canton. Years ago Chiang set out from Canton with no railway to carry the troops of his Revolution, plunged overland to seize Hankow and then fought his way down the great River Yangtze to establish his Government in its present seat, Nanking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: British Gift | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Jack Cornett Shuler, 18, son of California's radiorating Preacher Robert Pierce ("Fighting Bob") Shuler; by Metta Nadine Shuler, 18; in Los Angeles. Grounds: nonsupport. She charged that on Father Shuler's insistence her husband "had to say good night to me and leave for home every night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 7, 1936 | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...Landon) preached for 40 minutes. Having put a dollar bill in the collection, Nominee Landon departed for Sunday dinner with his great-aunt, his old nurse "Aunt" Mary Baird and others who cared for him in infancy. Finally he went to the parsonage, his birthplace, took a nap in Preacher Shilling's Study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Livingstone's Travels | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...That's why I am trying to get you Bilbo folks to join me in saving him from his own blunder. When that time comes poor Bilbo will be confronted with the old nigger preacher's text which he said would be found in the 19th Chapter and 16th verse of Duteronimy ∣sic∣ and reads as follows: 'And Jonah said unto the whale, if you had kept your damned mouth shut, this never would have happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Broom or Bilbo | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...Federal Reserve Banks and the "money changers." he stepped up-as Adolf Hitler does-his speed and volume. By the time he reached President Roosevelt's failure to keep his inaugural promise to drive the money changers from the temple, the Priest was sweating as freely as had Preacher Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Merger of Malcontents | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

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