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...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...
...cheered and handclapped as a white-haired man, large of frame, square of face, firm of jaw, stepped from the station. Atlanta's Mayor William Berry Hartsfield, a representative of Georgia's Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers, Baptist ministers white and black greeted him-Rev. Dr. George Washington Truett, best-known Baptist in the world. He had arrived in Atlanta last week to preside over the sixth congress of the Baptist World Alliance...
...Baptist Truett, 72, North Carolina-born, was made a preacher against his will at 19, when his church "voiced its conviction that God had called George W. Truett to the ministry," and more or less forcibly ordained him. Preacher Truett founded a high school-Georgia's Hiawassee, now a junior college-before he finished college himself, at 30. For 42 years he has been pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, which today has an enrollment of more than 6,000 and a $1,000,000 institutional plant. Dr. Truett has traveled the world over on Baptist business...
...orator, George Truett has been compared with Bryan, Henry Grady, the great Baptist Evangelist Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Last week, after his 50,000 Baptists had paraded down Atlanta's Peachtree Street, with flags, bands and detachments of troops.* Baptist Truett opened the Alliance congress in the baseball stadium, from which the Atlanta Crackers had retired for a week. He led off: "As Baptists from around the encircling globe are gathered in the beautiful, forward-looking and nobly hospitable city of Atlanta. . . ."Launching into a lengthy comparison between Baptist and Roman Catholic beliefs, he summed up his own by saying...