Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like a chemist's catalyst by his mere presence hastens reactions in which he has otherwise no part. "I am,'' he himself has said, "only an investor." Born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, he graduated from McMasters University, Toronto, and, in 1906 arrived in Cleveland with the Baptist ministry as his chosen career. Before ordination, however, he became interested in public utilities, left the ministry in favor of Cleveland street railways. Next he went to Iowa, bought up options on public utilities. One of his Iowa deals was financed by Otis & Co., Cleveland bond house, marked the beginning...
...Howard College is first of all a church school owned and controlled by the Baptists of Alabama. . . . No teacher is employed in the institution who is not a professed Christian and with rare exception all of the teaching force belong to the Baptist faith. . . . The students take seriously the fact that Howard is a Christian college. . . ."-President John C. Dawson of Howard College in the college catalog. At Howard last week, up stood Horace Calvin Day, associate professor of biology, to demonstrate in a chapel talk to the students that perhaps the intellectual and the spiritual do not always embrace...
...Baptists famed for liberalism in theology: first among them is Manhattan's Harry Emerson Fosdick. Many have wondered why he called himself a Baptist at all. The answer seemed to be: because he was pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church...
...Though the alteration of title was agreed upon a year ago, no legal action could be taken until a New York State law preventing a religious corporation from changing its name was amended at the last session of the State Legislature. Fundamentalists who resented the use of the word "Baptist" in describing Preacher Fosdick's church, Modernists who felt the same way for different reasons, irreverents who have called the new church "Socony" in deference to Mr. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., all took notice...
...Matter. Reina was a Hollywood cocotte, "a parasite by nature." She got a good man, but couldn't keep him. Olive, a Baptist from Salt Lake City, had an itch for men of culture. She died in Manhattan, after marrying one of many. Ellen wanted to be an artist. She found her opposite number in Paris, but he left her; then, she tried to make second bests do. Lucia was born on the Riviera, but she went to Paris to learn about love. When she was tired of being an old man's darling, she tried a young...