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...seven years he led a flock in East Harlem. Welfare work took up most of his time. Though his mind brimmed with strange economic and political questions, he could still vote a second time for Wilson in 1916. Then came the War. It knocked him loose from all his orthodox inheritances and belief. He refused to turn his pulpit into a recruiting station. He combated War hysteria. His patriotic friends turned from him. He gave up his church, found a refuge in the pacifism of the Socialist party. He founded and edited a radical monthly (The World Tomorrow...
...This is what we will do!" continued Don Carlos with that sparkling vivacity which made socialite Washington flock to his parties when he was Chilean Ambassador. "We will create three State companies. One for agriculture, one industrial and one mining! Each of these companies will employ the unemployed. We will have a job for every man now out of work...
Meanwhile at Saunton in Devonshire it was raining, too, as a flock of U. S. women, fresh from a team victory over British women (TIME, May 30). qualified for the women's British Open golf championship. The rain stopped long enough to let Miss Maureen Orcutt play around in the phenomenal scores of 73 & 78, winning the medal and putting the U. S. flag alone on a British golf club's flagstaff for the first time in history...
...says is "an egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks and of some im insects, as the cockroach," to swell their total by $3. Oddly enough, the Purchasing Agent was forced to buy one gallon of Cidol disinfectant and four pounds of Cidol powder to drive a flock of ants out of the basement of University Hall...
...with some 40 other pupils, on a tour of the U. S. In 1924 he was assigned the task of spreading the Gurdjieff ideas in America. Known by his editorial reputation to a few people in New York, Gurdjieffite Orage soon proselytized scores of the intelligentsia. Americans began to flock to Fontainebleau. But in 1924 an automobile accident almost killed Gurdjieff; he was forced to discontinue the activities of his Institute, took to writing. His book, of biblical proportions, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, or an Objective Criticism of the Life of Man, recently completed, was translated from...