Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House, he stared for a moment, then crowed with delight. White-thatched Representative Eaton, a Baptist minister from 1893 to 1919, has since 1925 been an ardently Republican member of the House, distinguished of late for his persistent heckling of New Dealers. The White House letter, addressed to "the Rev. Charles A. Eaton," was a copy of President Roosevelt's famed appeal to the nation's clergymen, asking their "counsel and advice," inviting them to "tell me where you feel our Government can better serve our people" (TIME...
...Rev. William E. Lampe of Philadelphia: When a man spends so much time bringing back the saloon, pays so little attention to divorce and domestic disorder in his own family and attends worship so seldom, has he a right to expect the wholehearted support of the church...
...Rev. Ira M. Hargett of Kansas City: I suggest that you cease having political powwows on the Sabbath Day, such as you have had recently; that you cease making the Sabbath a holiday for boating and fishing and that you attend church regularly as an example to the young men of our nation...
...Rev. Howard Fulton of Chicago: Why should the clergy waste time in seeking to advise a man on social security legislation who has ruthlessly broken his campaign promises, discarded his platform and repudiated the Constitution which he swore to protect, uphold and defend...
...Rev. John Thompson of Chicago: I feel that the killing of pigs and the burning of cotton was a sin before God and a crime against civilization...