Word: bahs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago motorists were heading north last week to see one of the most fantastic pieces of architecture in the U.S.-the continent's first Bahá'i Temple of Worship (see cut), on Lake Michigan's shores in suburban Wilmette...
Nine is of great significance in the Bahá'i religion (TIME, July 20, 1931), because it is the final digit. The Bahá'i faith-boasting 29 adherents in Wilmette, 3,000 in the U.S., and more than 1,000,000 in the world-was founded in Persia in 1863 by one Mirzá Husayn-'Ali, who took the name of Bahá'u'lláh (Glory of God). His followers emphasize the unity of mankind, universal peace, abolishment of extreme inequalities of wealth, and a world faith absorbing all religions now extant...
Permission from Palestine. Permission to erect a Bahá'i House of Worship "in the center of the Western World" was received from Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'u'lláh's son, in 1902. The fact that there were very few Bahá'is in the U.S. at that time made the project seem overbold. But by 1912 the Temple's site had been bought, and blessed by Abdu'l-Bahá himself. Cried he: "Now praise be to God that Chicago and its environs, from the beginning...
...competition for the Temple's design was won by the late New Jersey architect Louis Bourgeois, a Bahá'i believer. Bourgeois took ship to the Holy Land, showed Abdu'l-Bahá his drawings. Abdu'l-Bahá approved and set the building's cost at $1,000,000 (cost to date...
...actually the sixth successive Pierre. A rangy, horse-fancying bachelor, he gave Tuxedo Park's thinning old guard a bad turn two years ago by proposing that the 58-year-old colony be opened to unregistered red-bloods. Snorted he: "What is blue blood anyway? Bah!" Died. Judson Churchill Welliver, 72, confidential secretary to Harding and Coolidge (1921-25); of cancer; in Philadelphia. He once said that he and Mrs. Harding had dissuaded the President from seeking Congressional action to limit all Presidents to a single six-year term...