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...Those whose stakes in California are greatest hold themselves personally responsible to their class throughout the nation to smash Upton Sinclair. They hate him as a muckraker. They hate him as a Socialist. They hate him as an I. W. W. sympathizer. They hate him as a "free love" cultist. They hate him as a Single Taxer. They hate him as an atheist. And last week they hated him most of all because he was bent on becoming a confiscationalist. How It Started. More than a year ago Upton Sinclair sat down in his study to write a pamphlet called...
While their leader floated overhead in a red autogiro, 5,000 black & white followers of Negro Cultist Major J. "Father" Divine (TIME, Dec. 25) marched and countermarched across Manhattan's sunny Harlem on their way to Easter worship. At the head of the procession a small girl carried a placard on which was a picture of Divine and the words: HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY. A banner tied to Divine's autogiro answered in red letters: PEACE TO THE WORLD-FATHER DIVINE'S MISSION. Truck-mounted hands moved slowly forward, playing jazz. The marchers sang...
...Jesus Christ or suffer their followers to worship or pay them divine honors . . . shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.-Chapter 235, section 72, Laws of 1898, New Jersey. This law was cited in a report filed last week in Newark by a three-man committee investigating that inexplicable Negro cultist, Major J. "Father" Divine. The committee was appointed last autumn by Judge Richard Hartshorne as a result of disorderly conduct complaints against a noisy meeting of Father Divine's Newark "Kingdom." Judge Hartshorne took no action last week, left the 38-page report before the public and the public...
...choice cuts of beef. There was a large nursery where some pickaninnies slept, incredibly, for upstairs 300 dusky adults were shouting their evangelical fervor. They were in Heaven, a real Heaven of free food and no work promised and produced by Major J. Divine, a black, benign, inexplicable little cultist...
...Briarcliff Manor, not far from Nyack where lives Oom the Omnipotent, onetime "love cultist," The Groups had an international house party. Glib, bright-eyed Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, "soul surgeon," arrived on the S. S. Aquitania with a party of 22 "experienced" members of The Groups, many of whom had met with him at a house party in Geneva last January (TIME...