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Trying in Brussels, meanwhile, to form a Cabinet was Belgian Liberal Paul Emile Janson. He hustled over to London to tell Leopold III he had lined up the necessary majority, returned to Brussels accompanying His Majesty, discovered to his chagrin that the backing he thought he had obtained had slipped away. Thus Professor van Zeeland, who offered his resignation on Oct. 25, remained Premier of Belgium...
Early in the 19th Century, a fanatical Swede named Eric Janson founded a cult whose simple theology was based on the single tenet that the Bible was the only book that could properly be used in religious services. Even hymnals were considered by Eric Janson to be worldly gauds. Oppressed in Sweden by orthodox authorities, Eric Janson sent a boatload of his followers to pioneer a colony in the U. S. The first shipload of Jansonites went down in mid-Atlantic with all hands. Janson and a second company of his followers succeeded in reaching Illinois in 1846, purchased their...
...Founder Janson passed out of the picture early, being murdered in 1850 by a jealous husband named John Root. The colony's history thereafter paralleled that of most 19th century U. S. religious Utopias. Disease and crop failure due to unfamiliarity with the land killed off many. Next came a period of self-sufficiency and content, followed by dissatisfaction and dissolution. The colony's 10,857 communal acres were split...
...COMING - Gösta Gustaf-Janson-Knopf...
...Horst W. Janson, of Hamburg, Germany, for study in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Hans Rupp, of Wurttemberg, Germany, for study in the Law School; and Robert E. Mistler, of Konstanz, Germany, now in the Graduate School of Education, for the continuance of study in that school...