Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in a humbler mood, the Post ran another editorial about Tycoon Wolfson. Asserting that it was doing so to avoid expensive and protracted litigation, the paper announced it was contributing $25,000 to a Wolfson charity, the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville. "On his part," said the Post, "Mr. Wolfson is withdrawing the suit without any payment...
...love the name of John because it reminds us of John the Baptist, precursor of our Lord . . . and the other John, the disciple and evangelist, who said: 'My children, love one another, love one another because this is the grand precept of Christ.' Perhaps we can, taking the name of this first series of holy Popes,* have something of his sanctity and strength of spirit, even-if God wills it-to the spilling of blood...
Neighborly Baptist John D. Rockefeller Jr. had a surprise for the Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy of the Union, who run two schools and a junior college in Tarrytown, N.Y., near the Rockefellers' Pocantico Hills estate. His gift...
...colonial days, Kentuckians (then Virginians) with a whisky taste had trouble chasing away the demon rum. The rum-makers once put through a law boosting the legal price to $15 a half pint. The Bourbon County grand jury even indicted James Garrard, a Baptist minister who later became Governor of the state, for illegal whisky selling. But by 1789, tenacious Bourbon County distillers had finally given corn likker an old Kentucky home. Though ten years ago bourbon was only 13% of total domestic whisky sold, last year it was 47%. Last week bourbon reached another pinnacle: in nationwide newspaper...
Throughout the Bible Belt only a handful of pulpits ring with talk about the brotherhood of man-if brotherhood implies sitting together in a schoolroom. Pro-segregation sentiment is strongest in the areas where the rooted religion is Baptist and where the pentecostal sects flourish...