Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This successful blend of faith and finance, according to Myra Kiimalehto, was at first administered jointly by Thor, her slight, pince-nezed Swedish immigrant husband, and ex-Methodist Harvey Spencer Lewis, former president of an "Institute for Psychical Research." Together they applied modern U.S. selling methods to a potpourri of lore derived from the ancient esoteric Rosicrucian cult which dates back beyond the isth Century. In 1928, the Lewis-Kiimalehto brand of Rosicrucianism found in San Jose a happy combination of favorable weather and favorable authorities. There Lewis incorporated it as a nonprofit organization, and settled down to be "Imperator...
Last week Presiding Judge Konstantin Undzhiev pronounced sentence. Because of the "pastors' honest and sincere confessions," said Undzhiev, he had waived the death penalty. The four principal defendants-the heads of Bulgaria's Congregational, Baptist, Methodist and Pentecostal churches-got life imprisonment; nine of their associates drew prison terms ranging from five to 15 years, and two got off with suspended sentences...
...churchmen were dead set against it. Cried Lutheran Pastor Ernest Edwin Ryden of Rock Island, Ill.: "[It] would divide the world into two armed camps. It would sign the death warrant of the United Nations!" Said the Rev. Ernest Fremont Tittle, famed pacifist pastor of the Evanston (Ill.) First Methodist Church: "It is aggressive to Russia-just as a similar alliance between Russia and Latin America would appear aggressive to the American people...
Nothing Aggressive. At first, it seemed that no understanding or agreement would be possible. But after four hard days of Chairman Dulles' painstaking diplomacy, in which he was assisted by New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Southern Ohio's Episcopal Bishop Henry W. Hobson and others, a recommendation came forth. It bore none of the ringing affirmations that distinguished the conference's meetings of 1942, when it called for a postwar world organization, or of 1945, when it called for the Christian concepts of justice, law and human rights in the U.N. charter...
Florida-born Martha Beck appeared to be eminently respectable. She was the mother of two, a Methodist, an experienced hospital superintendent. Little Ray got her name through a "Lonely Hearts Club" where he started most of his pitches, and he wrote her admiring letters. But when he went to Pensacola to meet her, he discovered that she was not quite his type-she had no money. Also, she weighed 200 Ibs., had wrestler's arms, a terraced chin and the cold eye of a jail matron...