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Anti-Sectarian. In St. Louis, Andrew Thomas Stevenson sued for divorce, complaining that his wife refused to feed him any white bread, white sugar, or meat because it violated the Scientific Order of Spectro-Chrome Metrists' rules based on "solar, lunar, and terrestrial radiant gravitation influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...also been an inmate of Leavenworth Penitentiary. Paroled by Calvin Coolidge after helping to foil a jail break, King of Duty Ghadiali was almost deported as an Oriental alien in 1934, reinstated as a citizen by Franklin Roosevelt within the last year. He is now head of the "Spectro-Chrome Institute" at Malaga, N. J., which claims to cure diseases by colors and light rays, as well as a candidate for Governor. Last week he opened his campaign with a speech to an audience of eight in Newark's Berwick Hotel. Said King of Duty Ghadiali: "Senator Clee will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Preacher and Parsi | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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