Word: roach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last Saturday's issue of the New York Herald-Tribune, Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, protested that he had been misquoted in reports of his address delivered at the Union recently. It was charged by Dr. Straton that some newspapers had quoted him as saying that, "He (a man to whom he was referring) had some elements of human decency about him, even if he was a Jewish Judge", while in truth he had said, "Though the judge was a Jew and not a Christian, and though he had in the case to deal with matters...
...tongue in the check variety Perhaps he is a great humorist, and there is a suspicion that he possesses certain good natured give-and-take virtues which would have delighted a Harvard audience had he been invite and accepted a request to speak in Cambridge. The John Roach Straton tradition is becoming slightly worn...
Confronting the aimed and calculated thrusts of a logician, the Reverend John Roach Straton, D. D., salient fundamentalist and divine, went down to defeat at the hands of Professor R. C. Givler, Ph.D. '14, of the Department of Psychology at Tufts College, in a verbal duel staged last night in the Living Room of the Union. Before an enthusiastic, responsive audience which packed the room and listened motionless throughout three hours, the divine and the psychologist thrust and parried on the subject: "Resolved, That this house believes that the growing tendency toward Agnosticism and Atheism is undermining our social structure...
...Reverend John Roach Straton D. D. of the Calvary Baptist Church, New York City, noted fundamentalist and exponent of divine healing, will debate at the Union next Tuesday instead of Warden L. E. Lawes of Sing Sing Prison, as previously announced...
...White & Blue, the hue all thoroughgoing U. S. citizens should logically be, includes such personages as Mayor William Hale Thompson, American Legion Commander Edward Elwell Spafford, Mrs. Ella Boole, John Roach Straton, Billy Sunday, Dr. Frank Crane, Elks, Grotto, Rotary, Lions. Moose...