Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What the new political carpenters, plasterers and plumbers would do for the old house remained to be seen. So far they had been chiefly partisans and leftists. But if they did not build for all men instead of political parties, all mankind instead of a social class, their work would be patchwork, their tenure, as history reckons time, brief. And the despairing inhabitants would probably ask the next crew to raze the old house to the ground and start building over again from the ground...
...TIME [May 21] said, University of Chicago's President Hutchins has sounded the first note of an argument about which we shall (unfortunately) hear more. . . . While the world is still reeling from the full story of the almost incomprehensible savageries perpetrated upon mankind by the German nation, he is the first to blossom out again with the once-fashionable foppery of coddling criminals...
...talked 750 of his followers into turning over all their worldly goods for the privilege of joining. With this money, the profits from "Mankind United" and funds advanced by his wife, he began buying property. By last week, less than two years later, he had succeeded the late Aimee Semple McPherson as the West Coast's gaudiest prophet...
Glib, handsome Arthur Lowler Osborn Fountaine Bell toiled mightily during his early years in California. He founded a profitable cult called "Mankind United," labeled himself "The Voice" and announced that he had seven doubles all capable of thinking as one. He denounced capitalism, quoted the scriptures feverishly, soon claimed 250,000 followers...
...indigenous religionists was tough and he got little recognition. Finally in an excess of zeal, he announced that U.S. planes with Japanese colors had bombed Pearl Harbor on orders from the "hidden rulers of the world." He was arrested, convicted of sedition, sentenced to five years in prison. "Mankind United" collapsed...