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...Straton attended the Dempsey-Carpentier fight and described it from his pulpit. More members of his flock skipped...
...Straton dropped 29 members of his congregation for an alleged "plot" to oust him. Returning from Europe he cast calumny on its capitals and said: "The high society girl is the lowest thing on earth...
...proposed to erect a skyscraper with Calvary Baptist Church as its core. Trustees resigned while Dr. Straton organized legal battles to justify his design. In this year also he frequented dance halls and composed his pornographic peroration upon the modern dance: "Crowded together . . . surging up and down . . . locked tightly in each other's embrace . . . with the cheek of the man against the cheek of the girl . . . sensuous strains of oriental music . . their bodies vibrating together and often coming into postures that were actually indecent . . . cigaret smoke . . . fumes of whisky . . . tipsy girls . . . young women who were raving drunk . . . surging . . . women...
...close the dance halls and sinks of iniquity . . . jail Nicholas Murray Butler . . . build a brand new Federal Penitentiary. . . ." He achieved the height of his fame by encouraging conflagrations of emotional Pentacostalism instigated in his church by Girl Evangelist Uldine Utley. During this fervent ferment his son, Warren Badenock Straton, had his soul saved and received the gift of tongues...
...Straton haled into court Charles C. Smith, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism (see col. 1) for sending him atheistical propaganda and annoying letters...