Word: spiritualists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City, to establish the reality of divine law, Spiritualist Herbert Tanner engaged an Egyptian vaudeville trouper to lie buried in his churchyard for two hours, "demonstrate" that the dead are only in a trance. Police dug up the Egyptian, fined him $25 for not having a burial permit, $25 for performing the services of an undertaker without a license...
...Hartley Board of Regents which ousted Suzzalo draped the presidential mantle around Matthew Lyle Spencer, director of Washington's School of Journalism, but put the presidential sceptre in the hands of a Hartley henchman named William Neal Winter, a practicing spiritualist with a "control" named Hugo. Asked Washingtonians: "Who really runs the University-Hartley or Hugo?" In 1932 Hartley (or Hugo), ostensibly for economy, smashed the Suzzalo system of Colleges, bore down on extracurricular activities, optional courses. That autumn Washington Alumnus Clarence Daniel Martin (Class of 1906) rode the Democratic landslide into the Governorship. President Spencer soon "asked...
Once upon a time William Dudley Pelley was a newspaper man in Vermont. Later he was a spiritualist. Since January 1933 he has occupied the exalted post of commander and promoter of the silver-shirted Silver Legion (claimed membership: 100,000). Galahad Press published Liberation, a weekly magazine with which Shirtman Pelley publicized Silver Shirt ideals, attacked Jews for ruining the world, attacked the Federal Reserve System for being run by Jews, attacked NRA as a plan to sovietize the U. S., referred to Franklin D. Roosevelt as "President Rosenfeld...
Speaking internationally by radio, 82-year-old Sir Oliver Lodge, British spiritualist, said: "This may possibly prove to be my last talk. . . . Let me take an af- fectionate farewell." A whisper: "Good...
...first time in its history the Assembly opened its meetings (at 50? and 75? admission per person) to the public. On view were its star performers. Dr. John Heiss, elected president, is a business-like pastor of a Spiritualist church in Jamaica, L. I., publisher of small Long Island newspapers. He announced formation of an education bureau to train Spiritualist missionaries. Rev. Charles J. Morrow of Buffalo, plump and bald, is a "clairaudion." He hears voices in his left ear. In 1931 Spiritualist Morrow predicted that Mussolini would die. Last week Spiritualist Morrow fished questions out of a basket, told...