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...Soup, soap and salvation" was the motto of the Army's fiery-eyed founder, General William Booth. The Salvationists whom thriving young Grocer Damon heard in Lowell, Mass, in the '80s were so poor they could offer only the last. Damon thought that enough and joined. "We got stoned sometimes," he recalls of his early years as trombone in an Army band. At Quincy, Mass, the whole band was once arrested for disturbing the peace. The others were sentenced to 30 days in jail but 16-year-old Damon was overlooked because he was so small...
...Founder Booth made autocracy a prime part of the Army's tradition and Commissioner Damon has a control that verges on the absolute. He has charge of his terri tory's budget, initiates programs, promotes and transfers officers, has full disciplinary power over them. "We have rules," says he, "and they are very rigid. We feel that officers' lives should be kept apart." Officers cannot smoke, use alcohol, go to the theatre. Since the choice of a mate requires the approval of their superiors, nearly all of them marry within the ranks, rear another generation of Salvationists...
...London Colonel Bernhard Booth learned via the International Red Cross that his sister, Colonel Mary Bramwell Booth, head of the Salvation Army in Belgium, onetime leader in the West Indies, Germany and Denmark, granddaughter of Salvation Army founder General...
...William Booth, had been interned by Nazis at Constance...
Angrily, sourly, in grave disunion, the Convention adjourned. And in the swift days after the grunting delegates entrained for home, the effects showed as clearly as Mr. Roosevelt could have wished. Demo cratic lame ducks Holt of West Virginia and Burke of Nebraska announced for Wendell Willkie; so did Booth Tarkington, Irvin S. Cobb; so did the Louisiana sugar planters, and all the men who bolted Roosevelt...