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...Chungking in November 1950, Methodist Missionary Francis Olin Stockwell, 52, from Perry, Okla., was just sitting down to Sunday supper when...
...Missionary Spy. It was hard work. Methodist Dr. Stockwell learned to parrot a Marxian view of the news, and to give an interpretation of his missionary life as an act of aggression against the Communist government". "I admitted," he later wrote, "that my speaking and writing had made the Chinese friendly to the United States and cool to revolutionary doctrine . . . and that if this was what they meant when they said I was a spy, then I would have to admit that I was a spy, a missionary...
...last, after 9^ months of this, two Red guards shoved him across the border at Hongkong, the last Methodist missionary to leave China (TIME...
Meeting in Omaha last week for the first of two 1953 executive sessions, the Methodist Council of Bishops lost no time in speaking their denominational mind about the current congressional vogue for investigation. Springboard for the council's resolution on the subject was the attack of Republican Congressman Donald L. Jackson of California against Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam as a Red-fronter (TIME, March...
...citizen of Nevada. Every year Smith hands out $90,000 or more in scholarships to deserving high-school seniors, another $100.000 or so to such organizations as the Boy Scouts and Community Chest. The Reno Day Home, a nursery run by Catholic sisters, is a Smith philanthropy; the local Methodist Church paid off its mortgage with $5,000 from Smith; Mormons and members of the Church of the Nazarene have also benefited from his bounty. The source of Smith's largess: gambling. As head of Reno's famed Harold's Club, Ray Smith is the greatest crapshooter...