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...Judge J.F. Rutherford's disciples hit Cambridge yesterday to explain to Harvard the message of Jehovah's witnesses. Although he was unable to get permission to canvass College dormitories, the "witness" cornered students on the Square, selling them pamphlets and telling them about Judge Rutherford's fifth column revelations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Canvassed By Jehovah's Witnesses | 9/20/1940 | See Source »

...born in Utah), he takes a deep delight in curdling the blood of literary opponents with a Comanche yawp before rushing in for the kill. He is deeply, sincerely, authentically American: he always seems to be threatening to clinch a literary judgment in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress. The literary situation which Critic DeVoto found in the East was calculated to exacerbate his deepest instincts, habits of thought and affection. With a loud roar of rage, the felicity of phrasing and invaluable candor of a common scold, he immediately started to set things to rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Angry Man | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...Jehovah's Witnesses thrive on trouble. Last week, after the most harried season in their 62-year history, 35,000 Witnesses took over Detroit for five days, had themselves a rousing time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Witnesses in Detroit | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...from being fifth columnists, as alleged, Jehovah's Witnesses hate dictatorships as much as they do other churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Witnesses Examined | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...Persecution of Witnesses merely strengthens them in their belief that they are battling the hosts of Satan, that the millennium is drawing nigh, and that in the great battle of Armageddon-due any day now-the wicked will perish and Jehovah's Witnesses will be saved. "They do not wait to be thrown to the lions; they walk into the lions' den, and bat its occupants over the head with the complete works of Judge Rutherford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Witnesses Examined | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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