Word: headman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adopted. Jean, five-month-old girl; by James Bernard Schafer, Messenger (headman) of the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians; in Oakdale, L. I. Jean's home will be the 100-room Oakdale mansion (formerly William K. Vanderbilt's) acquired by the R. F. M. M. last year (TIME, July 11, 1938), who changed its name from Idle Hour to Peace Haven. A religious cult dedicated to Peace and practicing a mixture of Rosicrucianism, Christian Science, Christianity, Supermind Science, and faith healing, the Fraternity will attempt to make Jean immortal, by bringing her up in an environment where death...
...United Automobile Workers really wants sole recognition by General Motors. Mr. Knudsen insisted the NLRB, not G. M., must decide whether the U. A. W. of C. I. O. or the U. A. W. of A. F. of L. is in a majority. Robert J. Thomas, C. I. O. headman in U. A. W. also left. Second-stringers on both sides continued to sit in vain with Conciliator James F. Dewey of the Labor Department, who continued to spend his non-conciliating evening hours in the Motor Bar of the Book-Cadillac Hotel...
...Tokyo was said to express their "joy." Italian papers lyricized about Japan, but only in Germany was anything drastic- and concrete done against the Comintern last week. In Berlin the necks of three convicted agents of the Comintern were severed by the guillotine which has now replaced the Nazi headman...
...King (Universal). The last things any cinemaddict might expect to find in a mythical kingdom like Alvonia are Tony, Tom Mix's piebald cowpony, and Tom Mix himself, in a cowboy hat. But both appear, Mix as headman of an itinerant Wild West Show, Tony as his factotum. The function of Mix and Tony never varies in the cinema; they are an equestrian first-aid kit, a rescue team. This time they rescue the small king of Alvonia (Mickey Rooney) twice: first when the horses of the Wild West stage coach, in which he is getting a free ride...
...Yawalapiti women prepared manioc cakes and beverage and the entire tribe turned their faces to the south praying that the return would be soon. It occurred after seven weeks of prayer. From a jungle stream paddled Vincent Petrullo, his guides shouting that they wanted welcome. The Yawalapiti chief headman, wearing a diadem of jaguar hide, greeted him skeptically. When explanations were over, every one laughed loudly about the Great Gods. The women formed in a line, with arms linked and the palms of hands held against each other with the fingers interlaced and sang a song to Mr. Petrullo...