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...With his fat profits from the deal, "Jimmy" Cromwell sailed into the Florida land boom, planned to build a city called "Floranada," lost his money in the collapse, lost his illusions in a deluge of lawsuits. Depression infected him with Reform. He dipped into economics, politics, finance, began to preach public ownership of utilities. In a booklet called The Voice of Young America he attacked U. S. business methods, talked State Socialism but called it capitalistic reform. He took to the lecture stand, told the Matinee Musical Club of Philadelphia that "man is his brother's keeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Merger | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...making an organized attack. "To save men from Hell," said the Moderator, "must ever be the motive of missions. We must have a sense of Hell, not the Hell of a onetime theological faith but the Hell that is a present observable fact. We do not need to preach Hell for there is plenty of it in the world to be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Stocking to Newton | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

Down upon the thick skull of one Gottfried Feder in his student days crashed the flat of a heavy dueling sabre. Never quite the same afterward, unsuccessful Civil Engineer Feder began to preach an absurd distinction on which was founded the Nazi Party. He thought there were two kinds of capital, good and bad, raffendes and schaffendes, "grasping capital" and "creative capital." Often but not always one could tell bad capital by the fact that it was possessed by Jews. Only good capital had any proper place in the Fatherland. Orating along these lines in a beer hall, Messiah Feder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Zags After Zigs? | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...chain of symbolic reasoning in Principles of Quantum Mechanics, and among them none is more articulate, more authoritative, more sensible than Sir James Hopwood Jeans, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Like a modern St. Paul, Sir James has taken it upon himself to preach the Gospel abroad, to explain the groundwork of theory which makes the work of Dirac and his peers possible. Last week appeared the newest Jeans book, Through Space and Time,* into which the 57-year-old astronomer and mathematician has packed the fundamental things 1934 Science knows about the Universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Indisputable Universe | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...Scotland, reported a correspondent of the Christian Century, Moderator P. D. Thomson of the Church of Scotland has taken to visiting his flocks by airplane. Typical tour: from Inverness to Kirkwall to preach at a cathedral and two churches; thence to the islands of Ronaldshay, Westray, Sanday and Stronsay; back home in less than a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In the Churches | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

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