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...with his large mind obsessed by this strange ideology that Mahatma Gandhi made to Indians his recent terrible, mystic appeal (TIME, March 24): "Money alone will not win self-government. If money could win, I should have obtained it long ago. What is required, therefore, is your blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Pinch of Salt | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...viewpoint of Amos 'n' Andy. Their dialogs describe the homely adventures of two Negro boys (Amos is high-voiced, nervous; Andy is deep-voiced, domineering) who operate, with one cab, the "Fresh-Air Taxicab Company of America, Incorpulated." They lead humble love-lives and club-lives ("The Mystic Knights of the Sea"), and run a whole gamut of perplexities and predicaments not too exaggerated to be recognized by their listeners. They are supported by a host of supernumeraries, but they produce all these voices themselves, including that of an occasional dog. So intimately concerned do their audiences become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amos 'n' Andy | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba was initiated into the Miami Temple of the Mystic Shrine, at Havana. Last week President Machado received as "token of esteem" from the Dominican Republic a thoroughbred horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 10, 1930 | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...Conversion of a Professor: from Rhetorics to Theology. Confessions of a Mystic", Wednesday: "The Philosophy of a Christian Bishop. His Conception of the Christian Church. Conflicts and Polemics. Christian Intolerance" Monday; "Manicheism and Christianity. The Pessimistic Vision of Life of a Great Theologian. The Rational Theology of a Celtie Monk", Wednesday, January 15. "The World and its History. Past, Present, and Future in the City of God of Saint Augustine". Monday, January 20; "Fifteen Centuries of Augustinianism. Its Influence on Christian Thought in the Middle Ages. During the Reformation and in Modern Times". Wednesday, January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL INSTITUTE SERIES LECTURERS ANNOUNCED | 1/7/1930 | See Source »

...Beaver Dam, Wis., a family of 40 had a reunion, celebrated by nibbling a 100-year-old egg brought from China which had mystic hieroglyphs on its shell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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