Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Humming a little tune, Governor Johnston received the petition and read it through. Mrs. Hammonds stood at his elbow listening, then moved briskly back to her desk. Governor Johnston frowned at the incomplete list of signatures and said: "This is peculiar conduct for men who claim to be in good faith. . . . Well, boys, I'm much obliged to you and I'll look it over...
Representative Kight and colleagues represented themselves as desiring merely to "protect" Governor Johnston from Mrs. Hammonds. But the Johnston regime has been attended by something besides the anti-Hammonds talk. Governor Johnston has been accused of being a Rosicrucian.* He has been suspected of trafficking in the supernal with Mrs. Hammonds' uncle, one James R. Armstrong, who is said to study the Yogi philosophy. Oklahomans embellish their stories about Governor Johnston with sarcastic references to gnomes, nymphs, sylphs, salamanders, crystal-gazing, mystic numbers. Newsgatherers relate how Governor Johnston once said he would sign a certain bill at a certain...
...Governor Johnston has denied being a Rosicrucian or "taking stock" in spiritualism. He explained his election-time dealings with a woman spiritualist in Oklahoma City. "She is from my home town,"† he said. "She predicted my nomination and election. I just jollied with...
Rosicrucian or spiritist or whatnot, Governor Johnston had to deal this week with the petition of Representative Kight and colleagues to investigate himself...
...Poet Adamson in The Muses' Threnodie used Rosicrucian paraphernalia-supernatural beings, alchemic formulae, astrological signs-to embody moral teachings. The ritual of Rosicrucianism today is guarded from uninitiates. There is in the U. S. a "Rosicrucian Fellowship" whose president, a Mrs. Max Heindel of Oceanside, Calif., lately declared Governor Johnston was no Rosicrucian. If he were, and should reach the sixth or "Adept" degree, he could build a new body for himself and live many a century, according to the doctrine. Five Brothers of the order live entirely without bodies, in the Temple, which is an "inner" world...