Word: spiritualists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fibrillation. In London, Frank Webb got turned down on his plea for divorce when he left home to become a "better spiritualist," complained that the "vibrations are all wrong" at his house...
...overthrown by the 1910 Revolution, which became the almost mystical source of reform-land, church, social, economic-and is still the major influence in Mexico's national life today. It was led by Francisco Madero, a 5-ft. 2-in. vegetarian, teetotaler and spiritualist with brown beard, piping voice and a nervous tic. Madero was supported by the backwoods guerrillas Francisco ("Pancho") Villa and Emiliano Zapata. But U.S. Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson cooperated actively against Madero, supported Victoriano Huerta as a better friend of U.S. busi ness interests. When Madero was killed, Zapata and Pancho Villa joined with Venustiano...
...Spiritualist Ford's autobiographic apologia does not demand agreement from the reader; table rapper as well as spirit knocker can enjoy it as the record of an unusual man. Ford first noticed that he was unusual when a shavetail at Camp Grant. It was late in World War I, and thousands of soldiers were dying of influenza. Lieut. Ford had to pick up the lists of dead, and one morning he realized that he knew what the names would be before he got the lists. At a loss to explain his strange precognition, he wrote Mother back in Florida...
Haloed Cabbage. Ford records the early history of the spiritualist movement in the U.S., when it was chivvied by police. Today the law is more tolerant and scientists less skeptical of psychic phenomena. Non-spiritualists, however, will still be depressed by the sad fact that spirits sometimes choose to communicate with the living in such down-at-heel language; it suggests that a lot of education goes to waste when people...
...religious leaders have begun to worry about the spread of Zarur's movement. Protested Jaime Cardinal de Barros Camara: "The Catholic Church cannot countenance a man who announces himself as the reincarnation of St. Francis of Assisi." Several Protestant churches warned their members against Zarur, and the Spiritualist Federation denied him recognition on the ground that he is causing confusion among the spirits...