Word: truett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sanders became a Christian at a revival run by Texas Evangelist Dr. George W. Truett. When the single-room, red-brick Valley Christian Church needed a pastor, he began preaching on alternate Sundays to its congregation of eight. Since 1923 he has carried on alone, with weddings and sick calls as well as sermons. Now his congregations run to 150, out of a membership...
Died. The Rev. Dr. George Washington Truett, 77, internationally famed Baptist leader, onetime (1934-39) president of the Baptist World Alliance, for 47 years pastor of Dallas' First Baptist Church; after long illness; in Dallas...
...Senate lost its mightiest atom last week. Washington's little (5 ft. 6 in., 135 lb.) Homer Truett Bone, 61, got a Presidential appointment as Federal Circuit Judge (seven Western states, Alaska, Hawaii, China). Two-Term Senator Bone had certain renomination and election within his grasp, could he but campaign for it. But a fall in his Tacoma home in 1939 left him crippled; repeated operations had further impaired his health. For a year his right leg has been massaged daily by the Senate doctor. (Said Senator Bone dryly : "After all these years of having my leg pulled...
...from his desk in the U. S. Senate one day last week rose round-shouldered, wraithlike Homer Truett Bone. Loudly he wondered why "the stubbornness of one man" (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) should be allowed to imperil the lives of 900 American refugees bound for the U. S. from Finland aboard the U. S. Army transport American Legion. The State Department gave no official explanation of why the route of the American Legion was not changed after Germany refused to guarantee her safe conduct through mined British waters north of Scotland...