Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fake moving picture project. They enhanced their scheme with the names of men high in the hierarchy, in business and in politics. More enormously, they had trafficked with Christ's Mother as the heroine of a cinema show to be called Mary the Virgin...
...Roman Catholic population,* and found priests eager to hear the prospectus of their "National Diversified Corp." The corporation proposed to make "movie and talkie pictures of thoroughly high-class, moral type, such as would appeal to church people." They promised that their major picture, Mary the Virgin, would be reverent in plot, the scenes proper. The hierarchy would certainly approve. But money was essential. They would sell stock in National Diversified Corp. to serious-minded believers...
Credulous Catholics paid $2,000,000 cash and obligated themselves for $1,000,000 more. The promoters acquired control of Sono-Art Productions Inc. Mary the Virgin was held up while Sono-Art produced Blaze O'Glory, The Rainbow Man (both featuring Eddie Dowling, a popular Catholic...
...President appointed Paul Martin Pearson of Swarthmore, Pa., elocutionist, Red Cross speaker, Quaker, to be first Civil Governor of the Virgin Islands. Purchased from Denmark in 1917, the islands have hitherto been in charge of the Navy Department with Captain Waldo Evans, retired, as governor. Jurisdiction of the Virgin Islands now passes from the Navy to the Department of the Interior...
Advice is given by the Virgin Mary, Dante and the Unknown Soldier. Finally the assemblage decides that a superman must do battle with the devil, now personified as Bolshevism. God the Father summons the Archangel Gabriel, commands him to descend to Earth and find...