Word: roach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been so long since he has been here that I would like to know the reason he has stayed away. It would be a good idea to have him debate with Al Smith and if he said he would, he would, not like Dr. John Roach Straton whom I previously admired...
...chef was the Rev. John Roach Straton, blatant Manhattan pulpiteer, who characterized Governor Smith, last fortnight, as "the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress and true political wisdom." Challenged to debate the charge in his own Calvary Baptist Church (TIME, Aug. 20), Pulpiteer Straton weasled, tried to shift the scene to local amphitheatres. But Nominee Smith declined to make a public show. He wrote: "The answer to my request to appear in your church before your parishioners ... is yes or no." Pulpiteer Straton answered: "Emphatically and unchangeably yes." But he meant "no," he would...
When it became known that the Rev. John Roach Straton, blatant Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, was to engage in a debate with Alfred E. Smith (see p. 10), many an honest church man was puzzled and annoyed. The proposed controversy was one in which they might not remain neutral. Their sympathies were not with the presidential candidate. Hence they were forced to take the side of the fundamentalist clergyman. But before they did so, even as he had cast reflections upon Governor Smith's record, they found it advisable to reflect upon Dr. Straton...
...Roach Straton has never achieved unusual prominence except in the negative sense of emerging, at frequent periods, from obscurity. He emerged for the first time from obscurity in Norfolk, Va.; (see p. 10) in Manhattan he has found increasingly ingenious methods of achieving publicity...
...candidate's and they were forced to acknowledge a characterization of their lamentable spokesman which was offered by the Chicago Tribune ". . . narrow-minded, pompous bigot . . . gluttonous for printer's ink, publicity and the front page. . . . Even those who have heard him do not know whether he is Roach Straton or Straton Roach...