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...Detroit one evening last fortnight some 50 members of the Black Legion, wearing cheap black & white robes and hoods, held a solemn conclave. Present were two relatives of the wife of a 32-year-old WPA worker named Charles Poole. They reported that Charles Poole was a wife-beater. "Let's beat him up!" "Let's stripe him!" cried the Black Legionaries. Some, more bloodthirsty, screamed: "Let's hang...
...Jiddu Krishnamurti, doe-eyed Brahmin-born Hindu, was pounced upon in Adyar, Madras 27 years ago by Mrs. Annie Besant and Rev. Charles Lead-beater, famed Theosophists. They declared that the 12-year-old moppet was "the Vehicle of the new World Teacher, the Lord Maitreya," whose last incarnation on earth was Jesus Christ. Calmly accepting this announcement, Krishnamurti grew up under their tutelage, became head of their Order of the Star in the East. In 1929, however, he disappointed his disciples by renouncing the Godship they had imposed upon him. Still a practicing Theosophist seer who affects soft, open...
...Commission. In 1932 another startling victory at the polls elevated him again to fame. By less than 2,000 votes out of some 200,000 cast, he beat critical, caustic George Higgins Moses, who had sat for 15 years in the U. S. Senate. Eager to discover this Moses-beater, newshawks rushed to Concord...
...would like to add a word of praise for your miscellany column to that given it by Jack Beater, who claims he wrote and sold a short story suggested by one of the items. I, too, have written a story suggested by that column, but I have had absolutely no success in selling...
...JACK BEATER...