Word: revivalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McCarthy, Annie Riley Hale, Robert Pierce Shuler, Justus S. Wardell, William Gibbs McAdoo. Abbott and McCarthy are irreconcilable supporters of Alfred Emanuel Smith who still think this is 1928. The candidacy of Mrs. Hale (Colyumist Heywood Broun's mother-in-law) is not taken seriously. ''Bob" Shuler, a radio revivalist, is a political maverick who is also running in the Republican primary. The real race appeared to be between Mr. Wardell, who managed Governor Roosevelt's unsuccessful preconvention campaign in California and Mr. McAdoo who swung the votes at the Chicago convention that nominated Roosevelt. As each candidate claims...
Last week a relative of Revivalist Rider died in Kansas City. He was called to attend the funeral. Now was his chance to overcome the jealousy of his predecessor, to do him a good turn! Revivalist Rider got in his automobile, drove to Pastor Brown's house and marched up to offer him the preaching of the Easter sermon...
Pastor Brown seized his visitor and threw him out. Then he seized a revolver and fired at Revivalist Rider. He hit him in the back and, as he turned, in the left side...
...Revivalist Rider staggered out on the lawn, wavered to his knees. There he lifted up his voice in a hoarse prayer for his assailant's forgiveness. Then he staggered to his car, where his wife was waiting. A little while later, in a hospital, he was dead...
...jail, Pastor Brown moaned: "I wish I were dead, too!" But he insisted Revivalist Rider had forcefully trespassed on his premises...