Word: michaux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...18th Century, was thereafter a lost art until British bellmakers began rediscovering it about 40 years ago. When alumni and faculty members of Alfred University resolved to spend some $10,000 on a memorial carillon for President Emeritus Boothe Colwell Davis, they instructed a bell founding firm of Brussels, Michaux & Michaels, to buy 35 old bells rather than cast new ones, which would cost somewhat more. Agents of Michaux & Michaels bought the bells in municipal halls, churches and chateaux of Belgium, Holland, northern France. Many of the owners parted with their bells because they feared they might be seized...
...Belgian National School of the Carillon. The carillon, housed temporarily in a wooden tower on the Alfred campus, was played publicly for the first time last week by Henry S. Wesson of Navasota, Tex., a carillonneur who studied with Director Denyn and, as U. S. representative of Michaux & Michaels, installed a carillon they cast for the Belgian Village at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition...
French justice moves slowly. The original charge against Cazot & Millet was made nearly five years ago (TIME, May 19, 1930). At that time a French businessman and collector named Michaux discovered that a Millet painting for which he had paid 150,000 francs was a forgery. Police called at the shop of Grandson Millet from whom the picture had been bought, found him ready to confess...
...many ways Elder Michaux resembles Harlem's Major J. ("Father") Divine (TIME, Aug. 7. et seq.). Each declines to tell his age. Each performs good works among poor Negroes. Each lulls his followers with a catchword (Father Divine's: "Peace, It's Wonderful''). Each preaches a warm, rambling theology. But Elder Michaux makes no claim to divinity. Once a fish peddler in Norfolk, he preached in Hopewell, Va., went to Washington in 1929 to found the Church of God under the Gospel Spreading Association. A small Alexandria radio station, WJSV, began picking up his services...
...with crosses and slogans "such as "Happy Am I" and "Willingly Jesus Suffered for Victory." He lives in a good neighborhood, runs a Negro employment bureau and a Happy News Cafe, and at odd times issues a paper called Happy 'News which consists mainly of articles about Elder Michaux and God. The Elder forbids smoking and drinking among his followers, enjoins fasting both as penance and as means of saving money for the Church of God and its charities. He accepts no salary, only a monthly offering. He has three automobiles, one an ancient Ruxton. His favorite observation...