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...theologians should take the trouble to advance them in a book amused some Unitarians, some independent admirers of a man Jesus, who have put by all supernatural elements in Scripture as fictional. They came as a shock only to hardfast fundamentalists of the evangelistic type, like Dr. John Roach Straton, who insist that every phrase in the Bible is "gospel truth," inerrant...
From his publicity-pulpit the Rev. John Roach Straton, of Manhattan, cried: "Victory was won by the preachers and by the God-honoring women of America. I pay tribute to one of the Joans of Arc of this campaign-Mabel Walker Willebrandt. I declare the feeling in my own heart when I say there has not been a finer piece of public service performed by anyone in modern days than that put across by Mrs. Willebrandt...
...John Roach Straton, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of Manhattan, purchased, last June, a hotel at Greenwood Lake, N. Y., which he planned to use as the base of a summer Bible camp. Last week, the hotel burned to the ground. Dr. Straton and his wife, who were spending a few days at their summer home at the other end of Greenwood Lake, rushed to the hotel in time to hear the final crackles of the fire. Like Senator Heflin of Alabama, Dr. Straton smelled a plot by his enemies...
...York World reported last summer that liquor had been sold over the bar of Dr. Straton's hotel; this caused Dr. Straton to start a $200,000 libel action against the World. The case has not yet been settled...
Regularly during the campaign, The Fellowship Forum devoted eight out of its ten pages to violent, blatant and inaccurate attacks on Al Smith, the Pope and rum -by story, headline, editorial, cartoon and readers' forum. The doings and speeches of Mrs. Willebrandt, Rev. John Roach Straton, Senator Heflin and many a minor bigot were faithfully reported. The technique in handling campaign trends was to ballyhoo a Hoover landslide: for example, "Smith to be Most Badly Defeated Candidate Ever Running for Presidency." Then there was standard stuff: "Drunk Negro Boosting Smith," "Kissing Pope's Ring Insult to Flag," "Tirades...