Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town has three general stores-the Regal, Herb Minnicks and Dyers. It has two gas stations, a post office (Ross Gallimore, postmaster) and Fulk Bros. Electric Store. There are four churches-the Nazarene, Methodist, Baptist, and the white, steepled Christian Church to which all of Freedom's people were invited, last week, to hear a Christmas cantata...
...after he refused to fire three Catholics from his administration, he was opposed by the 10,000 members of Sam Houston Klan No. 1. The Klan started a campaign of vilification, denouncing him as a chronic drinker and gambler. A Baptist, Holcombe demanded that the Baptist Ministers' Association try him on the charges at a public hearing. Although nine of the 13 ministers on the "jury" were Klansmen, they cleared him after a one-day "trial" held at the Rice Hotel a week before election. He won the election. Three campaigns later, however, he was defeated. One reason...
...such hotspots as Salerno and Anzio. Owsley Brown, board chairman of Brown-Forman Distillers Corp., said he would put up $15,000 for a church, provided it was matched by other contributions. Almost overnight they had $30,000, and used some of it to buy an old Negro Baptist church down by the river. Then they sent a delegation to the Episcopal bishop of Kentucky...
Back in Washington on Sunday, he walked to the First Baptist Church, sat there solemnly while its pastor offered congratulations to him on his election and "earnest prayers as he continues to shoulder the gigantic responsibilities of his significant office...
Student delegations from colleges in the New England area will deal with the theme "The Student and the Task of the Church" from the viewpoint of the following religious groups: YMCA, YWCA, Student Volunteer Movement, College Chapel and Administration Association, and the Baptist, Congregational, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Unitarian Churches...