Word: brotherhoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorkers, who thought they had experienced just about everything there was in the line of strikes, blinked incredulously at an item last week in their skinny, adless newspapers (see PRESS). It was a short interview with Michael J. Cashal, first vice president of old Dan Tobin's International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which was involved in New York City's walkout of truck drivers (TIME, Sept. 16). Said Brother Cashal: "This strike is a rotten mess...
...goggle-eyed followers he told still more: about the subterranean Great White Lodge, 75 miles beneath the Forbidden City of Lhasa and reached by a "gravity-neutralizing" elevator, where a twelve-man Supreme Council met in a white-metal hall to plan world strategy. "Archbishop" Doreal assured brotherhood members that he kept in constant touch with the council by sending his soul back to Tibet by "astral projection...
Under the leadership of Dr. Doreal and his astral remote control, Denver's Brotherhood of the White Temple prospered. By 1942 it had acquired an imposing downtown mansion. Here, pink-cheeked Prophet Doreal, garbed in a gold-trimmed robe of purple silk, addressed his followers from a throne that had once belonged to Mexico's Emperor Maximilian...
...religions with which the brotherhood would lead the postatomic world, "Archbishop" Doreal took care last week to be as misty as the distant Himalayas. Said he: "Our foundation is Christian, but our interpretation differs from that of the orthodox groups. . . . We're reasonable people, not fanatics." His most explicit expression of faith: "I am a Republican...
Religion for Sale. The Miracle of the Bells has also a special importance. It fervently exploits every last one of the most treasured American principles-the brotherhood of races and creeds, human decency, class democracy (it has enough "little men" to man a Liberty ship). Above all, it has a religious theme-and in recent years a slew of novels, good & bad (including The Robe, The Song of Bernadette, The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith) have proved to publishers that in an unhappy world religion, no matter how vulgarized, has a market value second only...