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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like many such enterprises in the U. S., I.I.U.R.A. came to light in California. Its most publicized agent is a well-fed, well-dressed 52-year-old Rutgers alumnus named George Gouverneur Ashwell, whose headquarters are at 26 O'Farrell St., San Francisco. Its Bible is an anonymous 313-page book called Mankind United. Principal apparent support of I.I.U.R.A. are sales of Mankind United at $2.50 each, on which agents get a 75? commission. Last week Agent Ashwell claimed 18,000,000 followers whom he expects quickly to proselytize 2,000,000 more members. When the group totals...
Main steps taken in the open by I.I.U.R.A. have so far consisted of sales of "the book" by Agent Ashwell. A dignified, voluble, onetime architect who came to California as a district manager for Johns-Manville Corp., lost his job in 1931, Agent Ashwell happened into an I.I.U.R.A. lecture three years ago, was instantly captivated by the idea. He set up a bureau, helped promote Mankind United, now lectures six nights a week to goggle-eyed San Franciscans, including many a onetime Townsendite. As envisioned by Author Ashwell, if each buyer of Mankind United promptly sells four copies to other...
Little noticed by the world, the Union, founded by British and French parliamentarians in 1888 takes itself quite seriously, claims to have germinated the idea of The Permanent Court of International Justice, the League of Nations. Press Agent Robinet de Clery ballyhoos the Union as a more universal institution than the League, because Japan and the U. S., League nonmembers, and totalitarian Italy which finds the League distasteful, regularly send delegates. Germany and Soviet Russia, however, did not attend...
Like other Quakers, unaccustomed to the light of publicity, he was afterwards upset .to see his diplomatic slip in print. Two of Japan's 700 Friends talked to reporters before the press agent of the conference, nervous John Reich of the Friends Service Committee, could stop them. Said Quaker Seiju Hirakawa: "The present invasion of China by Japan is motivated by a militaristic clique which is trying to protect the Manchukuo experiment ... a colossal failure. Ninety per cent of Japan is against the present undeclared war. . . ." Said Ryumei Yamano: ''In Japan we have no freedom of speech...
Last week dapper little Martin J. ("'Marty") Durkin, known in his gunning heyday as "The Sheik" and now in his twelfth year of a 35-year term in Joliet (Ill.) Penitentiary for killing a Federal agent in Chicago in 1925, was announced as the principal character in the "Gangbusters" weekly dramatization. "They've got no right to use my misfortune to peddle soap," said Lawyer Irving S. Roth for Convict Durkin, eligible for parole in seven more months. Into court at Chicago marched Mr. Roth, seeking an injunction against the broadcast. Surprised, Benton & Bowles quickly dropped Durkin...