Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dallas F. Billington. 59, preach his down-home sermons from the pulpit of his 5,000-seat auditorium. "God is real -see how he has blessed us," he often says. "This li'l ol' Kentucky preacher boy made good, and all the credit goes to God." The conviction that "God is real has carried Dr. Billington from one triumph to another since he came to Akron. A square-built six-footer, he recalls an uncertain beginning back in Kentucky, where he smoked and drank in the pool halls of Paducah. He quit drinking in 1924, when he became...
...visit leaves relations among all the churches of Christianity more genial than at any time since Luther. But within the Kirk there are hard feelings. The honorary treasurer of the Kirk of St. Andrews resigned his post in protest. When Dr. Craig turned up at St. Andrews to preach the centenary service, he felt it necessary to soothe the fundamentalists of his clan...
...general congressional weariness with foreign aid. To assuage the aid program's critics, he pointed out that the Administration's new aid program began only four months ago and has not had time to operate perfectly. Though he is sending a whole battery of top lieutenants to preach the new program's virtues to Congress, the chief job of making reforms and selling them to Congress falls on Fowler Hamilton, 50, a Wall Street lawyer who took over last fall as boss of the renamed Agency for International Development, has since won both Kennedy...
...Step on an Anthill. Graham got to Peru after barnstorming through Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador on the first of two 1962 crusades to 91% Catholic South America (this fall he is scheduled to preach in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay). By the standards of the past, it has not so far been an effective tour...
...secretary of the league, Menon gave soapbox speeches, got sympathetic left-wing intellectuals like Laski, Bertrand Russell and Stafford Cripps to preach the gospel of Indian independence. Menon lived in a dreary bed-sitter in Camden Town in London's working-class borough of St. Pancras, eked out a living by writing occasional legal briefs, often lacked enough money for a meal. He became involved in Labor Party politics, served as a member of the St. Pancras borough council, where he is still remembered as "the best library chairman we ever had." For his work, he became...