Word: shiloh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he hoped to make Zion the U. S. Oberammergau (TIME, March 29) was doing well. In an approaching municipal election Mr. Voliva believed his adherents would be victorious, thus restoring him to complete power over Zion. Then, one morning, Overseer Voliva directed his chauffeur to drive him past Shiloh Tabernacle, the rambling frame structure built by Zion's Founder John Alexander Dowie, in which the Passion Play was being performed every Sunday. To his horror, black smoke "in five different and widely separated places" was billowing out of the Tabernacle and Overseer Voliva later said he heard...
...competition with Union City, N. J., Bloomington, Ill., Hollywood, Calif, and a half-dozen other U. S. towns and cities which hold some sort of Passion Play, Zion, Ill. last week set itself up for the third year as the "American Oberammergau." In Zion's rambling Shiloh Tabernacle on Palm Sunday opened the Zion Passion Play, bigger and longer than ever before. It will be performed every Sunday through June and this year for the first time the show will cost...
...which all good Southerners insist on calling "The War Between the States." Chickamauga, Gettysburg, Shiloh, The Wilderness are names that mean more to the U. S. than Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood. The flood-tide of histories about the Civil War, with its cross-waves of controversial memoirs and the bickerings of aged generals, has passed, but good books on the subject are still being written. This week appeared the latest and one of the most readable...
...make soft coal smokeless. They have built roads, transmission lines, a town and a tourist camp; planted 2,751,000 trees, 7,000 kudzu vines, nine tons of grass seed; started teaching elderly mountaineers trades and have generally created more hubbub than the Valley has seen since Grant took Shiloh in 1862. Most of the Valley's 2,000,000 souls gape in awe at the everlengthening procession of TVA wonders. Some are very angry indeed but no one is bored. TVA's magic wand waves too fast for the eyes of the rest...
Senate: Conditions among Indians $ 10,000 Stock Market 200,000 Air & Ocean Mail Contracts 55,000 Racketeering 25,000 Munitions Industry 50,000 Rackets in the Building Trades 5,000 Bankruptcy & Receivership Proceedings 10,000 Senatorial Campaign Expenditures. 25,000 Mayflower Hotel Reorganization. 1,000 Superintendent, Shiloh National Park...