Word: founder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after a buzz saw cut off the fingers of a German-born wood turner named John Jacob Bausch, he went tc work selling spectacles in partnership with one Henry Lomb. When Founder Bausch'< son, Edward, learned to fashion microscopes, and sell them, too, Bausch & Lomb began to prosper. Smart Edward Bausch established contacts with the famed German firm of Carl Zeiss in 1890 and before long Bausch & Lomb was using Zeiss patents with exclusive rights to the U. S. market. Shortly thereafter Zeiss bought one-fifth of Bausch & Lomb stock and warmed by increasing royalties from Rochester, began schooling...
...between 500,000 and 600,000 people in 67 countries, and which is probably the only faith in the world which guarantees "money back if you are not satisfied." As a mail-order gospel, propagated by advertising (in 400 newspapers, 50 magazines), Psychiana passed a milestone last week when Founder Robinson motored from Moscow to Portland, Ore., placed an order for 5,000,000 envelopes- a year's supply-and announced a new policy which will make Psychiana more like a church. Half a million letters will shortly go out to Psychiana students throughout the world informing them...
...typical day last week he voiced 387 replies by dictaphone, which three stenographers took down.) Advanced courses of ten and 40 lessons cost respectively $10 and $50. Sending these out keeps 60 Psychiana employes busy. The firm also markets eleven Psychiana textbooks, costing from $1.59 to $2.50- although Founder Robinson's business aids wondered last week if sales might not slump when Psychiana students form groups, share their books. Biggest Psychiana gross to date...
...forgotten how, in his behind-the-counter drugstore days, he once sold five one-gallon jugs of mineral oil to a man who came in to buy a pint. Besides its own building in Moscow, Psychiana owns three drugstores, a daily paper, the News-Review. An accomplished organist, the founder has an 800-pipe Wurlitzer in his big Moscow home, invariably includes organ solos (preferably Brahms) in his infrequent lectures. Though in those lectures Doc Robinson is inclined to blast the Christian churches, thus annoying many of his hearers, he has Christian charities at home-last year he gave...
...There is not today and never has been any harmony between the teachings of Jesus and the position of historical Christianity. All through its history, historical Christianity has been consistent; it has consistently opposed application of the teachings of Jesus. . . . Paul, not Jesus, was the founder of historical Christianity; the founder of what today passes as Christianity and ever has so passed. . . . I hate the things which historical Christianity has and does defend: superstition, intolerance, slavery, war, degradation of womanhood, and placing of property rights above human rights. Therefore, with this service I conclude my relation with the church...