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...White Russian family which never sat back in its efforts to get others to support it was much in the news last week: the "Marrying Mdivanis" of Georgia. In 1923 a General Zakhari Mdivani appeared in Paris. As a Mohammedan chieftain of the Caucasus, he was recognized as a Bey or Prince by the Russian Imperial Court. which acknowledged all Georgian "Princes" possessed of a pair of shoes, a stone house, a flock of sheep and a rifle. Prince Mdivani (pronounced Mmmdivani) had little money, but. as a Circassian Cornelia, he had his jewels; five children, all very good looking...
...come forward or no one will come forward.' . . . And so in a few minutes, after a consultation of those Hindu priests on that altar rock, the priest came down among us and offered to us their sacred Hindu food-to Hindu, to orthodox, to outcaste, to Mohammedan, and to Christian they offered the Hindu food...
Married. Doris Mercer Kresge, divorced wife of 5-&-10? Store Man Sebastian S. Kresge who claimed she wanted $10,000,000 to bear a child; and Prince Farid Khan Sadri, onetime chamberlain to Persia's late Ahmed Shah Kadjar; in civil and Mohammedan ceremonies, the bride remaining Christian; in Paris...
...Philadelphia, Negro Thomas Tolbert, io, was haled into Juvenile Court as a truant. His mother said she had told him to stay home until the teacher learned to call him Thomas Tolbert-El. his name as a member of the Moorish-American Mohammedan cult. Grand Sheik Joshua Way Bey came from Chicago to back her up, describe his organization which turns Negroes into Moors (turbans $3.50. polygamy permitted). Judge Charles L. Brown had Grand Sheik Joshua Way Bey hospitalized for examination, ordered Thomas Tolbert-El back to school...
Officially the Soviet State tolerates all religions, including the Mohammedan and Buddhist, and permits religious worship. Unofficially Soviet leaders from Stalin down support the Union of the Godless, encourage what they call its "educational activities" in Russia proper...