Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...I.I.U.R.A. came to light in California. Its most publicized agent is a well-fed, well-dressed 52-year-old Rutgers alumnus named George Gouverneur Ashwell, whose headquarters are at 26 O'Farrell St., San Francisco. Its Bible is an anonymous 313-page book called Mankind United. Principal apparent support of I.I.U.R.A. are sales of Mankind United at $2.50 each, on which agents get a 75? commission. Last week Agent Ashwell claimed 18,000,000 followers whom he expects quickly to proselytize 2,000,000 more members. When the group totals 20,000,000, an international advertising campaign will quickly...
...much its mystery as its promises. Its recruiting agents insist that they can give no hint of how the Millennium is actually to be arranged until the event arrives. Agents like Gouverneur Ashwell claim not to know who started I.I.U.R.A. or who is currently running it. According to Mankind United (which I.I.U.R.A.'s members irreverently call "the book"), the organization was started in 1875 by an anonymous group of millionaires who pooled $60,000,000 to fight the "Hidden Rulers of the World." Purpose of the Hidden Rulers was and is to massacre 400,000,000 intelligent, right-thinking...
...Rockefeller Foundation was established "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world." In 1936, the Foundation gave away $11,300,000. It cooperated financially with 130 agencies, in amounts varying from a few thousand to several hundred thousand dollars. To scholars doing advanced scientific work it provided 222 grants. It provided 700 fellowships for post-graduate training. It conducted research through a field staff of 70 public health experts on yellow fever, malaria, hookworm disease, tuberculosis, yaws, diphtheria, schistosomiasis. influenza. Its money flowed into 53 foreign countries from Scandinavia to Java. The agencies which it helped included...
...thoroughly commonplace star, is only eight light-minutes from earth, a fact which sufficiently explains its unique importance to mankind. Yet observation of the sun like that of other celestial bodies is impeded by the distorting effect of earth's atmosphere. An observer at an altitude of 25,000 ft., however, has two-thirds of the effective atmosphere beneath him. To that altitude a Pan-American Grace Airliner mounted over Peru during the total eclipse of last June (TIME, June 14) and from it Major Albert W. Stevens, stratosphere balloonist, made unusual photographs of the eclipsed sun which...
...Ever receptive to new plans for improving the lot of mankind, the President and his Son-Secretary James broached two new ones. After consulting with Secretary Morgenthau and a committee on housing, the President told the press of a scheme to establish institutions similar to building & loan associations for that $0% of the population who rent homes. By depositing their savings in such institutions the renters would get better interest than they can get at present from banks, would thus supply funds for the building of low-cost homes to be rented back to them. In Boston, Son James...