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...record of Washington's Senator Homer Truett Bone is as follows...
Career: Homer Truett Bone is a round-shouldered, kindly little man with a gloomy viewpoint. In discussing the state of the world, he is apt to remark: "This is a dark and sombre picture." Politicians, whose squabbling Homer Bone heartily dislikes, do not understand why Bone, of all men, should be afflicted by melancholy. Indisputably his State's most popular politician, he amassed 243,682 votes in the Democratic primary this year to 196,876 for all his opponents. He spends no money in the primary, except for gas and oil, and has just returned a $500 check from...
...Senate a few weeks ago Homer Truett Bone, small desiccated senior Senator from Washington, buttonholed his colleagues, one by one, with a grim persistence. He did not have to tell them that his and their old friend Senator Peter Norbeck died eight months ago of cancer. He did not have to remind them that by the time a U. S. citizen reaches the age (30 years) when he is eligible for election to the Senate, he must be wary of cancer. Result of his efforts was that Senator Bone got advance assurance of unanimous Senate approval of his bill...
...alternately by President James Henry Franklin of the Northern Baptists and President John Richard Sampey of the Southern. In oratory the meeting was a draw. Professor Emeritus Frederick Lincoln Anderson of Andover-Newton Theological Seminary led off: "The tyrants who sit in Rome, Moscow and Berlin. . . ." Dr. George W. Truett of Dallas, president of the World Baptist Alliance, countered with a thundering speech on missions : "If we Baptists sit smugly aside and prate about our orthodoxy while this mission work goes unheeded, then I say orthodoxy is a grinning, chattering skeleton!" Of Dr. Kagawa, after that mild little...
...their "100,000 Club"-an organization to get 100,000 members to contribute $1 per month for five years. When the messengers learned from Dr. Melbourn Evans Aubrey, a Baptist who brought greetings from Great Britain, that no denominational boards were in debt in his country. Dr. George W. Truett of Dallas stirred them to laughter by remarking that they should "follow the great American game of kidnapping and bring Dr. Aubrey to rescue Southern Baptists from some of their financial difficulties...