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...when it voted, 26 to 23, to table a resolution demanding the dismissal of Mrs. O. O. Hammonds, executive secretary and confidential adviser of the Governor (TIME, March 7). Talk, however, still comes out of Oklahoma concerning the Governor's matronly secretary with whom he is said to plumb spiritualism, occultism, Rosicrusianism. The latest report is that she calls the Democratic State Chairman her errand boy. Meanwhile her husband, Dr. Hammonds, churchgoer from Okmulgee, enjoys pay as State Commissioner of Health...
Governor Henry Simpson Johnston of Oklahoma, who used to lecture on the religious aspects of the Ku Klux Klan, is a profound student of ritualism, spiritualism, occultism, etc. One day he found a married woman, Mrs. O. O. Hammonds, who could plumb the depths of Rosicrucian* philosophy with him. Together they plumbed...
Historians wracked their memories for a similar incident in the whole chronicle of parliaments. The sensation at Belgrade, last week, cannot be put in words. Yet in the Balkans incidents almost as scandalous occur not infrequently. Therefore, last week, "nothing happened"-except that two investigations were started: one to plumb the alleged iniquities of the police; the other to apprehend those responsible for introducing a naked man into Parliament...
...home is 6,000 slaves. He scoffs at the native backwardness, ladens his wife with curios, silks, jewelry brought to him by fawning mer- chants. The tremendous arches, waterworks and sewers at ruined Timgad earn an indulgent wave of his hand but at St. Augustine's tomb he says: "Plumb out of date, the whole business . . . I'm talkabout the whole possetucky? the whole kit-an'-boodle. . . . The human race has got to make progress. . . . The Almighty doesn't care a nickel about anything except our makin' that progress. . . . The kind He patronizes are the boys that got the plans...
...forfeiture of the provisions and liquors, to be seized by the tutors." Evidently distilled liquors, or any Composition made therewith, were not considered as noxious in the possession of the tutors as in that of the undergraduates. And one cannot help wondering what are the wiles of "plumb cake" or meats or pies. Apparently this law like many little annoying things, carried its sting in its tail...