Word: masseli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brockton, Mass., Ku Klux Klan meeting last month where Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, was making his customary speech for hire against the Roman Catholic Church, somebody threw a bottle. It missed the Senator but hit and cut his police bodyguard...
...Each village in the colony has its Schultz, or head man," explained Mennonite Schwartzenstruber, "and the colony's affairs as a whole are regulated either by a council of the Schultzen or by a mass meeting of the whole community which now numbers 1,368 adults...
...colony was founded (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926) by 1,743 Mennonites from Canada. Of these, 200 have returned to Canada and 175 have died. Police or civil courts are considered superfluous by the Mennonites who deal with an offender simply by deciding at a religious mass meeting to boycott any brother who has seriously transgressed. Since the colony is 43 miles by ox cart from the nearest town, Puerto Casado, Paraguay, such boycotting is a most effective weapon of Justice...
Died. Mrs. Lucy Burgess Farnsworth, 63, of Dedham, Mass., mother of the late Henry Farnsworth of the Foreign Legion, first U. S. citizen to die in the World War; in Dedham...
...belief, dis belief, uncertainty. Of the ministers, 60% believed in the Devil but only 53% gave him a Hell in which to live. The students' score, also seemingly illogical, was 11% in belief of a real Hell but only 9% in belief of a real Devil. From the mass of contradictory credences could be sifted an essential credo, believed by 75% or more of the combined ministers and students. This credo would read: "I believe in the personal, omnipotent God, the Father, who controls the universe, and operates on human lives through the agency of the Holy Spirit...