Word: bahaism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light dry wine." Leading Friends: Pastor Christian Ficthorne Reisner of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle ("I get in the papers all I can, but it is not personal publicity I seek-I want my Christ played up"); Mizra Ahmad Sohrab, direct descendant of Mohammed and leader of U. S. Bahaism ("There is no saint without a past; there is no sinner without a future"); Editor Josette Lacoste of the U. S. French-language weekly, Amérique ("Only with a baby in arms can one walk safely in Paris"). No matter how many haughty ladies might refuse to curtsy...
...When she was 19 Alice Marble left her home in San Francisco, went to live with Coach Tennant who hired her as secretary, taught her not only a new forehand but also numerology, bodybuilding, cooking, how to act in the company of screen celebrities and the fundamental points of Bahaism...
...Bahaism was originally introduced into the U. S. at the Chicago World's Fair Congress of Religion (1893). Mirzah Ahmad Sohrab, who assisted at the Manhattan ceremony last week, accompanied Abdul-Baha on U. S. visits during 1911-14 as his secretary. Today he is the leader of U. S. Bahaism, which differs slightly from the Persian. Some 6,000 U. S. cultists are spread throughout the country with centres in Boston, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco. Manhattan headquarters under the title of the New History Society are at the home of Mrs. Chanler, mother of last week...