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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Faithful Mary claims, and police records of Newark, N. J. back her up to a considerable extent, that she once drank, ate garbage, stole milk, became a depraved wreck before the influence of Father Divine restored her to health and happiness...
...wife was spending the evening in Manhattan, so when Harry Greene, a contractor of Weehawken, N. J., was offered a chance last week to see the inside of "God's Kingdom No. 1," headquarters of Harlem's benign black Major ("Father") Divine, he accepted eagerly. His friend Paul Comora, a process server, was to hand a summons to Father Divine, against whom a onetime follower named Jessie Birdsall had brought suit for $2,000 which, she said, represented savings she had turned over to the Harlem "God." Greene and Comora arrived at the Kingdom, a big brick building...
...renunciation, she said, had been expedited by his demands that she turn over to him all the property held in her name. Faithful Mary's patience cracked when Father Divine requested the building where she was living last week-the Peace Hotel at High Falls, N. Y., one of 22 properties in the Hudson River Valley acquired by Father Divine as a "Promised Land" for his people. Said Faithful Mary: "Peace, I don't want to do it." Since "God" Divine avoids many legal troubles and income taxes by registering property in the names of his followers, there...
...Knights of the Hose will probably manage entertainment at the monster NAPR annual conventions. "Oil Conventions are pretty rough as a rule but our boys are different." said Chief Pump Knight Shanks last week. "The boys have to relax sometimes." Plans for fun at the convention in Rochester, N. Y. next autumn will be shaped by the Grand Knights of the Hose's governing body, the Free Privy Council...