Word: pulpiteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his friend Will Rogers, Father Flanagan called on the Governor, who had previously declared that "the chief executive would be derelict in his duty if he undertook to transfer his responsibilities to an agency in another State." But the additional pressure of Washington's united Press, Pulpit and American Legion made Father Flanagan hopeful of success...
...crime, went to jail for life. Their trials were later shown to have been honeycombed with perjured evidence against them. Judge & jury recommended their pardon. The case became interwoven with State politics. Governor after California Governor was implored by large sections of organized Labor, the Press and the Pulpit to set justice to rights by releasing Mooney & Billings. Though 15 years of prison life have greyed them to pathetic, broken figureheads, their Cause looms as large as ever across the land. Last week almost the last person in the world who might be supposed to have any interest...
...Reno's clergy organized against the new régime? Some oppose it, but hope lessly. One apologist for it is Rev. Dr. Alfred J. Case, Methodist pastor who lent his pulpit to Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts during his campaign for re-election last March. Recalling that Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals had called Reno a "compound of Sodom, Gomorrah and perdition," Dr. Case said that Reno's churches were wellattended, that the community in general was suffering no bad effects...
...Dallas, Rev. B. P. Brown, 30, part-time preacher and part-time baggage clerk, was found by police hanging, gagged and nude, by a rope from a chandelier over the pulpit in his church. For two days he repeated a shocking story of attempted lynching by four "enemies." Then he confessed: he had intended suicide, changed his mind...
...royal right hand was a heavy whip. With the royal left His Majesty seized the priest by his beard, dragged him from the pulpit, flung him screaming on the flagstones. Lash after lash, lash after lash, lash after lash. . . . The priest at length ceased to scream, fainted, lay as though dead. To the faithful His Majesty then stated that Her Majesty never lifts her vail in public, thereupon strode from the mosque with clinking spurs while fellow priests revived the flogged zealot...