Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even so, Alf Landon did not lack company. Riding along in Massachusetts he talked to Rev. Dr. Frank Buchman, leader of the Oxford Group (TIME, April 20, et seq.). Dr. Buchman discussed God and politics. When Governor Landon stepped out to address a crowd at Pittsfield, he had to show that he was on speaking terms with God. Said...
...Rev.'Francisco ("The Great Aztec") Olazabal, swarthy, plump Mexican faith-healer, rise beside their Founder, kiss him full in the mouth, declare he was bringing 50,000 Mexican followers into the lap of the Church of God of A. J. Tomlinson...
...Washington Comptroller of the Currency O'Connor got into the fight by pointing out that since March 1933 only eight national banks had failed, that on Sept. 28 it would be a whole year since one had closed its doors. In Brooklyn, however, Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Boss of the Union Party, loudly bawled that the principal U. S. banks are already "busted...
...this is what I had discovered. My Psalm translation of the year 1670 had been dedicated to no one less than the Rev. Dr. Increase Mather, Harvard 1656, and of all things, it was dedicated to him in his capacity as "convertor to the Indians" and gave quite a list of names of those poor savages, "Who formerly heathen, now become useful preachers of the Gospel...
This was a new version. I remembered that John Eliot had translated the Bible and the catechism into the native vernacular for the convenience of his copper-skinned neighbors, but for the rest, I was only aware of the Rev. John Harvard's desire to build himself an "Institute for the Advancement of Learning" for fear that otherwise the true doctrines might disappear from the American soil when he and hiis fellow-ministers should lie in the dust...