Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor H. A. Stewart and his City Council did not want a Fascist convention held -in their city, called out the police to prevent it. Defiantly, Leader Arcand slipped 45 of his leaders into a room near Police Headquarters, held forth unmolested for five-and-a-half hours. Upon emerging, Leader Arcand wired thanks to the mayor for "courtesy extended," announced the formation of a new National Unity Party. A flaming torch will be the new party's emblem, "Canada for the Canadians" its slogan, the upraised arm its salute and "King, Country and Christianity" its program...
William Kissam Vanderbilt called it Idle Hour: a 100-room house in Oakdale, Long Island, as sumptuous and showy as a Summer Palace of the Romanovs. Thirty years ago it cost about $7,000,000, but nowadays it is a bit run down. Last week 500 Truth Students, Adepts and Master Metaphysicians twitched on hard chairs in the big reception hall with its encrusted ceiling, ivory-colored fireplace, concealed pipe organ. Above the doors were signs reading "Peace, Discrimination, Enlightenment, Inspiration." James Bernard Schafer, Master Metaphysician, entered...
...Room and board at Peace Haven: from $14 a week...
...Royal Fraternity's headquarters, the Forum of Truth and the Center of Peace (a fairish-sized lecture room) in Manhattan's Steinway Hall. Mr. Schafer delivers four talks a week. Truth Students become Master Metaphysicians after studying more than a year and a half...
...that there were any distinguished painters working for the Government. But as PWAP was replaced by WPA, as the Art Project acquired more & more prestige,-he gradually began to bring the board round. Last year a young WPA muralist named Edward Laning finished an immense mural for the dining room of the Ellis Island immigrant station. Mr. Stokes contemplated its lusty, full-fleshed figures, its skillful gathering of groups, told the board that Edward Laning...