Word: ilsley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quick to retort to the Holy Father was Rev. Ilsley Boone, executive secretary of the International Nudist Conference. "A careful re-reading," said he in Manhattan, "suggests that the Pontiff was not attacking American nudism, since no authenticated case of wantonness or immorality has been cited against the organized movement in this country. . . . He refers to a 'cult' indulging in wantonness, and the American movement, no matter what else it may be, is certainly not a 'cult'. . . . Its leadership here includes members of the Protestant clergy and Catholic laymen...
...this moment the Rev. Dr. Ilsley Boone, onetime minister of a Dutch Reformed church at Oakland, N. J.. stepped forward. Dr. Boone is executive secretary of the International Nudist Conference which publishes an illustrated "health" magazine called The Nudist...
...frosty morning in January 1932 Mrs. Agnes Boeing Ilsley, sport-loving widow of a well-to-do Wisconsin banker, and her elderly white maid, Mina Buckner, were found hacked to death in their beds on Mrs. Ilsley's estate at Middleburg, Va. Wanted for the murder was George Crawford, Negro chauffeur whom Mrs. Ilsley had discharged on suspicion of stealing her liquor (TIME, May 8). A Virginia Grand Jury indicted Crawford but the police could not find him. Last January he was picked up in Boston on a petty larceny charge...
...appear. . . . -Revelation, 3: 18. In the Bible there are nearly 100 such references to nakedness. Last week they were cited by the indignant elders of 223-year-old Ponds Reformed Church in Oakland, N. J., in a solemn resolution accepting the resignation of one of their fellows. Rev. Ilsley Boone, longtime elder and sometime supply preacher, has been a prominent and active Nudist for two and one-half years. A small, white-haired, 53-year-old father of seven, he organized Nudist colonies in New Jersey and New England, helped found The Nudist which he calls the "only bona fide...
Immediately after the double murder the enraged citizenry of Loudoun County put their horses and hounds to hunting George Crawford instead of a fox. Leader of the chase was Brigadier General William Mitchell, of Air Service renown, at whose home Mrs. Ilsley had visited the evening before her death. But George Crawford was not to be found, a fact which possibly saved him from a lynching. Nevertheless he was indicted for the murder. Exactly one year later the police of Boston fished up from the dregs of the city's unemployed on a petty larceny charge a Negro...