Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"The largest single group supporting the Communist apparatus in the U.S. today is composed of Protestant clergymen." This astounding and inherently uncheckable statement appears in the July issue of the American Mercury under the byline of Joseph B. Matthews. No sooner had his article been spotted than the protests began...
Most of Matthews' Mercury article relates to the activities of Protestant clergymen in front organizations where Communists had a more or less hidden control. Fronts were an important but not the most important part of Red activity in the U.S., and some evidence of duped clergymen is a long...
Three Democratic members of the subcommittee indignantly denounced Matthews' American Mercury article as "a shocking and unwarranted attack." Matthews said that he had written it several months ago, and would not have done so if he had known he would be appointed by the committee. McCarthy said that the...
Father & Sons. The papers' activities have not always made them popular. Often readers in predominantly Catholic, Democratic Rhode Island regard them as Republican papers owned largely by Protestant stockholders. In some parts of the state a Democrat can hardly expect to get elected unless he attacks the Journal and...
* As it did the Methodists and Baptists. Northern and Southern Methodists merged with the Methodist Protestant Church in 1939 to become the Methodist Church (present membership: 9,065,727). U.S. Baptists are still talking about unity, but have not yet achieved it.