Word: preacher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Voice of Experience for only ten years, Dr. Taylor was in the advice business long before he took and registered his air name. Both the voice and the experience he traces back 49 years to his cradle on the Old Taylor Plantation in Kentucky. The son of a Baptist preacher, his preparation for the pulpit started early...
...Moines the Henry Wallaces were either renowned for their independence, or cussed for their stubbornness. Henry Wallace I, a Presbyterian preacher, launched Wallace's Farmer ("Good Farming. Clear Thinking. Right Living.") at the age of 60 despite the best professional opinion that it would fold in six months. In his 70s he told off Roosevelt I about Agriculture. Into his 80s, to half of Iowa, he was beloved "Uncle Henry." His son Henry Cantwell Wallace was a big, frail man who wore himself out as Harding's Secretary of Agriculture in jurisdictional disputes with Herbert Hoover...
...Manhattan, where it was deemed wise to provide protection for the German consulate, Mayor LaGuardia stole a leaf from the late, great Roosevelt I. While Police Commissioner of New York, T. R. once had to provide police protection for an anti-Semitic German preacher. He did so by delegating Jewish policemen to keep order. Last week Mayor LaGuardia appointed an all-Jewish detachment of police under command of Captain Max Finkelstein to guard the German consulate and escort distinguished Nazi visitors through the city...
Best-known New Thought preacher in the U. S. is Rev. Emmet Fox-a board member of the Alliance-who for the past year and a half has been preaching to an average 5,500 people every Sunday in his "Church of the Healing Christ" in Manhattan's Hippodrome. A onetime British electrical engineer, New Thoughtist Fox believes in a universal Law to which anyone may tune his mind in "scientific prayer...
...early as 1930 Publisher Vann sensed the changing political wind, shifted from Republican to Democrat. His subsequent rise under the wing of Senator Guffey lasted until two years ago when, at the Philadelphia national convention, Jim Farley learned that many a Negro preacher disapproved of Publisher Vann. Named in his place to lead the campaign of 1936 among Negroes was his distinguished friend, Lawyer Julian D. Rainey of Boston...