Word: spiritualists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...self-respecting Spiritualist is a religious person. He may belong to any one of half a dozen Spiritualist organizations and hold to his private religious or ethical beliefs, but he is sure to trust in life after death and communication between two worlds by means of mediums. To become a Spiritualist minister and be designated "Reverend" he must be high-school educated and take a three-year course (in residence or by correspondence) at a school in London, Los Angeles or Whitewater...
...Lowenstein he liked the late, equally notorious Ivar Kreuger, would never admit that he was a crook. He fell in love with a young Englishwoman at Biarritz, but it came to nothing because she insisted on marriage and his wife would not give him a divorce. He became a spiritualist. Finally he did the accepted thing, went to the U. S. as a lecturer. At his first lecture (in a Baptist church in Grand Rapids) the unexpected strains of the Russian National Anthem made him blench. Nothing else in the U. S. seems to have offended him, but this tactless...
Last week the Abbey Theatre Players, who began their second U. S. tour since 1914 in Manhattan fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 31), had an important little play called The Words Upon The Window Pane to introduce to the U. S. Scene is in a spiritualist seance where a sleazy medium calls upon her control, "Little Lulu," to bring tidings from the beyond for her customers. Suddenly there is a babble of tongues in the medium's mouth. The spirit of Jonathan Swift, no less, is deranging communication between Ireland and the astral shores. All the customers save a young...
Actual administrator of Washington is not President Spencer but William Neal Winter, regent and business manager in stalled by Governor Hartley. Regent Winter is a practicing Spiritualist, with a "control" known as Hugo. Last week Washingtonians were wondering publicly, "Who has control today, Hartley or Hugo...
...Columbia University desires to complete its already very large curriculum, it may well establish the Chair of Spiritonomy and Spirities proposed by Mr. Chelsey, a New York spiritualist. Nothing could be more appropriate than to add these new sciences to the classic ones, Salesmanship and Domestic Science. Mr. Chelsey is now in touch with the late Dr. Charles Steinmetz, and with that aid is attempting to make an invention to "free mankind from its deplorable ignorance...