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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Star in the East (Mrs. Annie Besant's Theosophist cult). The castle had just been donated to them, to be henceforth the capitol* of their faith. About the grounds ran a miniature railway bearing food for the many hundreds who waited in arduous patience to hear a "sweet, penetrating voice" issue from the soft, brown lips of their Jiddu Krishnamurti. In such tones will their "World Teacher" speak when his spirit flitters into Jiddu's tennis-playing, tea-drinking body. They saw nothing, heard nothing; they closed their congress. Soon Jiddu, under ward of Mrs. Besant, will come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Trends Aug. 9, 1926 | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...Prospero is the chief character of Shakespeare's Tempest. He is a benign gentleman, always unruffled before storm or calm. He has magic powers over the earths, the airs, the waters, over men and beasts. These he controls through his servant Ariel, a sweet-voiced sprite, who often gives him sage advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Potash and Klein | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...always does the Church know its own. Many a Senator bellows biblically in the Bryan-country, who never says his prayers in secret. But pietist-for-politics-only would be a most inadequate description of William E. Sweet, onetime Governor of Colorado, onetime banker, now candidate for the U. S. Senate, backed by farmers, laborers. Said the Christian Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Church Knows? | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...While there are many nominal church members in the United States senate, they are mostly conservative and the few liberals in the senate are, almost without exception, estranged from the church. It would be a happy experience for the nation to have a sound Christian radical of Governor Sweet's type in the senate. We understand that Judge Florence Allen is also running for the senate in Ohio, She incarnates the same type of Christian idealism as Governor Sweet. It would be cause for rejoicing if two such church members could have the opportunity of teaching America what Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Church Knows? | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

Born to the West (Jack Holt). It seems there was a pure sweet girl on the eve of a forced marriage with a wicked gambler of the west. In rode Jack Holt from the silent hills and smashed the horrid plot. Dance halls, handsome horses, and mountain grandeur are all there. Old style, perhaps, but good enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jul. 12, 1926 | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

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