Word: cultist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jesus Christ or suffer their followers to worship or pay them divine honors . . . shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.-Chapter 235, section 72, Laws of 1898, New Jersey. This law was cited in a report filed last week in Newark by a three-man committee investigating that inexplicable Negro cultist, Major J. "Father" Divine. The committee was appointed last autumn by Judge Richard Hartshorne as a result of disorderly conduct complaints against a noisy meeting of Father Divine's Newark "Kingdom." Judge Hartshorne took no action last week, left the 38-page report before the public and the public...
...choice cuts of beef. There was a large nursery where some pickaninnies slept, incredibly, for upstairs 300 dusky adults were shouting their evangelical fervor. They were in Heaven, a real Heaven of free food and no work promised and produced by Major J. Divine, a black, benign, inexplicable little cultist...
...Briarcliff Manor, not far from Nyack where lives Oom the Omnipotent, onetime "love cultist," The Groups had an international house party. Glib, bright-eyed Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, "soul surgeon," arrived on the S. S. Aquitania with a party of 22 "experienced" members of The Groups, many of whom had met with him at a house party in Geneva last January (TIME...
...Jean Toomer's grandfathers was Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, a mulatto carpet-bagger who became Acting Governor of Louisiana but was refused a U. S. Senate seat in 1876. After attending the University of Wisconsin. Jean Toomer became an exponent of Georges Gurdjieff, the Armenian-Greek cultist who founded the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau, France, and whose most famed disciple was the late Katherine Mansfield (TIME, March 24, 1930). Last autumn Disciple Toomer took a mixed party of eight, all white except himself, to a farmhouse outside Portage, birthplace of Novelist Latimer...