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...firm of which Mr. Michel is a member has collected millions of dollars from railroads. Clients do not criticize their methods, fairness or honesty. So successful has the firm been that the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen have retained them as Regional Counsel in 14 States...
Theosophy theoretically has no dogmas, is defined by Mrs. Besant as "the body of truths which form the basis of all religions and which can not be claimed as the exclusive possession of any." It has three Objects: "1) To form a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color. 2) To encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy and science. 3) To investigate unexplained laws of nature and the power latent in man." But Theosophists believe in many a dogmatic mystery, among them reincarnation. Mrs. Besant in previous incarnations has been...
When James John Davis wanted to resign last year, President Hoover already had a successor in mind-his good friend William Nuckles Doak, the scowling, big-featured editor of The Railway Trainman, for years Washington lobbyist of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Mr. Doak worked with Mr. Hoover in Food Administration days. He came up from shunting boxcars in the hardboiled coal town of Bluefield, W. Va. Therefore he could command respect from workingmen. As a Brotherhood official he had functioned in the legislative field (helping, among other things, to draft the Watson-Parker Railroad Labor...
...Brotherhood of Railway Train men is not in the A. F. of L., backbones of which are the building and printing trades unions. And it was because, like West Virginia's Doak, James John Davis had shown sympathy for the employers' side of labor disputes, that the late great President Samuel Gompers of the A. F. of L. gave President Harding so much opposition in Mr. Davis' appointment in 1921. President Hoover decided to conciliate the A. F. of L. and its present President William Green...
...matter of doubt that the early Church was neither Baptist, Presbyterian, Congregational nor Episcopalian; it was a free brotherhood of the spirit, where its members were all of one heart and mind...