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Daughter of a Baptist preacher in Houston, Jordan earned a B.A. in political science from Texas Southern University and a law degree from Boston University in 1959. She then returned to her parents' home and set up a law practice on the dining-room table. In 1966 she won a seat in the Texas senate, becoming its first black member since Reconstruction and its first woman since 1882. After engineering fair-employment and minimum-wage legislation and blocking passage of a restrictive voter-registration law, she went to Congress in 1972 with 81% of her district's vote...
...think a lot of people in this country are hungry for what we call decency," says Pastor Jack Hyles, 49, the preacher-impresario who made First Baptist No. 1. If decency alone will not hold a crowd, he makes sure theatrical oratory will. In the course of Sunday worship, Hyles shouts, whispers, jokes, cries. "It's a rare sermon when I don't weep," he says...
...Harvard, Ben-Zion Gold was speaking quite literally. What I am sure most people of good will do not realize is that Protestant religion, representing less than half of the present Harvard population, is the only one supported financially by the University: A large staff, a paid Protestant preacher, heat, lights, janitorial service, the regular use of the building, every week. And as to the church building Jews and Catholics contributed money generously to build this Memorial, which was then dedicated as a Protestant Church, with crosses carved right into the woodwork. The official University service for freshman, to which...
...charity from outside the University to find space in which to hold regular daily and weekly worship, and to pay a priest or rabbi. When they wish to give religious instruction to their children, Jews, but not Protestants, must pay rent for a room to the University. The paid preacher in Memorial Church is always Protestant...
...Alfred, a Methodist lay preacher and unabashed autocrat, is remembered with charged and mixed feelings on the shop floor. He often sided with his manual workers against the office staff, referring to the managers