Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Accounting themselves new interpreters of the "scientific teachings" of Jesus Christ, the Fillmores set out to devote their lives to spreading the gospel of Unity, declaring that man could maintain direct communication with God (in morning and evening "silences"), and that Unity could, and eventually would, triumph over death. For their work the Fillmores resolved to charge no fees, merely accepted "love offerings." Of love offerings there were plenty...
...ready to conquer death, Myrtle Fillmore died in 1931. Today, Charles Fillmore, 83, is president of the Unity School of Christianity, founded in Kansas City to train Unity teachers. A 1,320-acre farm 16 miles away is designed eventually to be "Unity City," a Jerusalem of Unity's anticipated Kingdom of God on earth. Unity has a predominantly feminine leadership; attracts few men to meetings; keeps no complete membership lists. It claims-although it negates many Christian teachings-that it works in the framework of the churches. It has also the framework of a publishing business-seven Unity...
...never wanted to be a doctor, anyhow. He wanted to be a writer. Sombrely, Dr. Martin got into a bus at Chino, Calif., east of Los Angeles, traveled 500 miles to a seashore inn north of San Francisco. And there, before poisoning himself, he wrote a long "thesis on death" to his wife and two young sons at home. The "thesis" lay beside his body when it was discovered last week. Excerpt: "Surely there can be no good reason for going on and maiming honest people just to eke out a living. To me general practice was just a life...
Impatient at Death's delay, he scrawled: "What the hell...
...major cause of Depression II was the failure of private industry to undertake pump-priming when the Government cut down. Certainly no private industry primed the pump less than the utilities; they had held up capital expenditures since the start of the New Deal's public-ownership and "death-sentence" deals (see below). Utility officers, in turn, explain the estimated dam of $3,000,000,000 in such expenditures on grounds that they and the investing public are too scared by the Government's power policy to put more money into the business...