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...historians have edged past tall, sonorous-voiced, peg-legged Gouverneur Morris with only a furtive nod. Only biographer with nerve enough to write a friendly word of him was roughriding Teddy Roosevelt. And T. R.'s biography of Morris (1888) made little splash...
...organizational ability, tested in business and in the Wartime U. S. Army, he represented what the air industry has cried loudest for. An upstate New Yorker and a Republican, Edward John Noble worked for a time as a reporter on the Watertown Daily Times, became the best treasurer the Gouverneur Athenian Society ever had, then packed himself off to Yale. Broke when he entered, he organized and ran an eating club, marked himself as likely to succeed by being graduated (1905) with a financial surplus. He started making Life Savers 25 years ago in a one-room loft in Manhattan...
Like many such enterprises in the U. S., I.I.U.R.A. came to light in California. Its most publicized agent is a well-fed, well-dressed 52-year-old Rutgers alumnus named George Gouverneur Ashwell, whose headquarters are at 26 O'Farrell St., San Francisco. Its Bible is an anonymous 313-page book called Mankind United. Principal apparent support of I.I.U.R.A. are sales of Mankind United at $2.50 each, on which agents get a 75? commission. Last week Agent Ashwell claimed 18,000,000 followers whom he expects quickly to proselytize 2,000,000 more members. When the group totals...
I.I.U.R.A.'s greatest attraction is as much its mystery as its promises. Its recruiting agents insist that they can give no hint of how the Millennium is actually to be arranged until the event arrives. Agents like Gouverneur Ashwell claim not to know who started I.I.U.R.A. or who is currently running it. According to Mankind United (which I.I.U.R.A.'s members irreverently call "the book"), the organization was started in 1875 by an anonymous group of millionaires who pooled $60,000,000 to fight the "Hidden Rulers of the World." Purpose of the Hidden Rulers...
France started him off a popular hero, elected him a Deputy, but he became suspect after he protested the King's execution. U. S. Ambassador Gouverneur Morris, paying off old grudges, was chiefly responsible for Paine's ten months in prison, his close escape from the guillotine, but it was Washington whom Paine blamed, accusing him of sacrificing their friendship for a treaty with the hated English. It pleased Paine when Napoleon praised The Rights of Man, said to him, "A statue of gold ought to be erected to you in every city in the universe." But when...