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Pastor Youngdahl is no sawdust-trail evangelist. Quiet, forceful, hardworking, he preaches ten-to-twelve-minute sermons, studded with human-interest stories which relate Christian truths to modern living. He believes no minister need be a ranter: "I've got something to sell. The greatest thing in the world. Christianity works...
...Bishop William Thomas Manning presiding. To his audiences, Gypsy Smith's black eyes have seemed as keen as ever, his voice mellow, his frame limber. (Only last year he married for the second time: a 26-year-old to whom he had long been "my hero.") Never a ranter, Gypsy Smith preaches of Christ Crucified, rambling as evangelists do. He has told audiences: "You are my manuscript. I look into your faces and wait for God to tell me what to say." He sings hymns in a sweet tenor, solo and with the congregation. He threatens no hell fire...
Ranking radical ranter that he is, Shoemaker also has, at times, an engaging side. An artful versifier, a Shakespearean reader (with gestures), a raconteur, he can sit for hours recalling his Munchausen exploits. No sketch of him is complete without his own War story...
...confusion because of his dogged filibuster for a Senate inquiry into the oil industry. He ardently embraced the Bonus bill because its payment called for fiat money. He likes to roll the word "Revolution!" off his tongue, put on overalls for news photographers, talk about the "under dog." No ranter, he visits bankers...
...hard getting his constituents bigger & better pensions, dipped into the pork barrel for public buildings, joined log-rolling expeditions for local waterway developments. He denounced Theodore Roosevelt for the Panama "grab," flayed him as a "mob leader." Loud and tactless, he was set down and snubbed as a radical ranter by conservative Republicans and Democrats alike. Tariff Fire- In 1908 Representative Rainey struck fire from the Republican tariff. A traditional low-tariff Democrat, he charged that U. S. manufacturers, protected by the tariff, were selling watches cheaper abroad than in the U. S. To prove his point he produced from...