Word: pulpits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Relief. The Red Cross concentrated its national organization. Henry M. Baker, National Director of Disaster Relief, hurried to Porto Rico on a destroyer. Public subscriptions were begged from the nation by radio, press and pulpit. Preparations were made to purchase tons of supplies for shipment to the Caribbean. In Florida, Nominee Robinson of the Democracy interrupted his campaigning to aid in relief...
...York Times . . . quotes you as saying from the pulpit of your church that, as a public man, I am the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress and true political wisdom...
...Straton started a crusade against Manhattan "night-life." He spoke from his pulpit of painted women who "plied their trade"; he described with astonishing intimacy the nudity on view in Aphrodite, a current revue. So detailed were his accounts that many members of his congregation deserted it and some of the trustees took exception to his eloquence...
...Straton attended the Dempsey-Carpentier fight and described it from his pulpit. More members of his flock skipped...
...Brule crossroads, painted cream-yellow an'd freshly trimmed at the staggering cost (for a congregation of 30) of $800. If he went to Brule, who should have the honor of preaching? Should gray-haired, blind John Taylor, a mere layman, be allowed to fill the pulpit as usual? Or should Brule call upon the Rev. B. Ernest Bayes, ordained pastor from big neighboring Superior...