Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Father Divine and his Harlem Heaven have moved into Hyde Park the name should be changed to "Hy-de-ho" Park...
Father Divine's cultists live in noisy, overcrowded "Heavens" which the Father has lately been moving, away from Harlem and its rival evangelists, to farms, where working "Angels" can feed and support themselves. Pardonably proud was Father Divine to announce last week that he had bought a new Heaven, an estate in an exclusive neighborhood. The estate: 500-acre "Krum Elbow" near Highland-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. Most exclusive neighbor (1,800 ft. directly across the river): Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The seller: eccentric, Roosevelt-hating Socialite Howland Spencer...
...Krum Elbow Heaven will accommodate some 3,000 angels in its 27 buildings (Mr. Spencer is reserving one small house for himself), and be marked by a sign with letters 40 ft. high for the edification of excursion boat passengers...
Said Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt: "It must ... be pleasant to feel that in the future this place will be 'heaven' to some people, even if it cannot be to its former owner...
...Baptist or Episcopal, the New Deal has revived the Christian spirit of America. The man who today sits in the White House is a great Christian. He has chosen me as his first assistant. Now, are you going to let that man down? If there is a God in Heaven your vote will be no! . . . God bless each and every...