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...being widely publicized among U. S. Catholics as a potent and mystic exorcist of demons. Publicizers were the Religious Bulletin of the University of Notre Dame, and the Catholic Register of Denver, whose 300,000 subscribers last fortnight read the following story condensed from a pamphlet called Begone Satan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Exorcist & Energumen | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...Satan disguised as a dragon had fallen upon the moon and was determined to devour it entire. The Turks ran indoors, got their rifles, ran out again. As fast as they could load & fire, they shot at the invisible dragon, whose infernal bite mark on the moon was dreadfully visible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Dragon | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...million. . . . This is stupendous and unparalleled, almost ungraspable in its immensity. . . . There never was economic waste on this gigantic scale." Lewis Corey holds that Fascism is no answer, but middle-class readers, visualizing the grim alternatives before them, are likely to experience despair, implore, like Milton's Satan as he stumbled toward the Pit: "Which way the neerest coast of darkness lyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Out of Six | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...terrific last-ditch fight with Jehovah. Leader of the sect is big, militant Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford, onetime Missouri circuit judge, who campaigned for William Jennings Bryan in 1896. Pleased with publicity in Lynn, Judge Rutherford boomed to all little Witnesses: "Whom do you choose to serve, Jehovah or Satan the Devil?" Promptly the Lynn school board expelled Carleton Nichols Jr., found itself embarrassed by the State truancy law. By last week 28 Witnesses of Jehovah had popped up in U. S. public schools. In Lynn aging Cora Foster, who had taught in local schools for 40 years, faced dismissal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Devil's Emblem | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...Most honestly do I wish that I could say a softening word or two in defense of Huck's character, since you wish it, but really in my opinion it is no better than God's (in the Ahab chapter and 97 others) & those of Solomon, David, Satan & the rest of the sacred brotherhood. "If there is an Unexpurgated in the Children's Department won't you please help that young woman remove Huck and Tom from that questionable companionship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 11, 1935 | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

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