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...went among the Matabele warriors, persuaded the chiefs to air their grievances and lay down their arms. Only big mistake of Rhodes's career, which cost him the loyalty of many a South African, was the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal, which it was hoped would finish President ("Oom Paul") Kruger and his Boers, bring the Transvaal into Rhodes's hands. Instead, the raid was made prematurely, and against Rhodes's last minute instructions. Kruger's Boers made short work of the raiders, and Rhodes, head of a neighboring and nominally friendly state, was almost universally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rhodes to Glory | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...Briarcliff Manor, not far from Nyack where lives Oom the Omnipotent, onetime "love cultist," The Groups had an international house party. Glib, bright-eyed Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, "soul surgeon," arrived on the S. S. Aquitania with a party of 22 "experienced" members of The Groups, many of whom had met with him at a house party in Geneva last January (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God on the Hudson | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

Full-page photographs of the "camera study" type gave effective close-ups of a locomotive's cylinders spewing steam, of the sousaphone ("oom-pah") horn player at the county fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst's Newsprint | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...earth. Bang! rat-a-tat! whack! bang! "My" friend crawls under sheet. Showers of sparks on the ground, then Crash!?a dark brown cloud over the front line. There is a curious noise close by. Something moves under the sheet. A jagged hole in it appears. Boo-oom!?pat-pat-pat! The ground shakes. Gas. Shrieks. Four years of this. Escape: death, a wound, a breakdown, intoxication, an occasional stolen feast. In 1918 comes disintegration, lack of coordination between common soldier and superior, retreat, final defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Remarquable | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Separated. Mrs. Georgene Daw Whittlesey; from Percival Wilcox Whittlesey, Omnipotent Oom of a love cult in Nyack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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