Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lawrence, Mass...
...Indian-wrestled with an aide in his office between conferences. Before coming to Washington he had left his grandfather's Calvinistic Church, had had a look in at Catholicism and had finally joined the Episcopal Church. As an acolyte in cassock and surplice he regularly served at Mass. But now he had turned to Far Eastern mysticism. He became fascinated with a fork-bearded Russian theosophist named Nicholas Roerich, and later, when he became Secretary of Commerce, sent Roerich to Outer Mongolia to do research in grasses. Roerich was the "Guru" (Spiritual Leader) to whom the now famous "Dear...
Wednesday was election day in Quebec. It was also the day of Premier Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis' patron, St. Joseph. Wednesday is Duplessis' favorite day of the week: he always tries to save his important acts for that day. After Mass in the morning, he toured all 119 polling booths in his home town, Trois-Rivières. He shook hands till his fingers cramped, greeting voters by their first names. Time & again his henchmen restrained him as he reached in his pocket for quarters for moppets: "Not on election day, Maurice." At 6:30 p.m. Bachelor Duplessis...
...Peace to All Men." Other things came out too. This was not the first time that Brown had claimed a wonder-working discovery. Born in Portugal of a U.S. seaman father, he had owned a drugstore in New Bedford, Mass., but had also run a "clinic" where patients were treated for everything from cancer to polio. On Nov. 13, 1939, he had been fined $1,000 for illegal practice of medicine, later had the sentence nullified. John Brown says he was framed...
...Allen bought into in 1946. So Allen got Amra to put up part of the $6,044,748 it took to buy OAP's 77% interest in Bosch, borrowed the rest. With Bosch, Amra got a company that grossed over $19 million last year, a plant in Springfield, Mass, and a bagful of German patents. Allen & Co. also strengthened its foothold in the electric manufacturing field...