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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hammonds. But the Johnston regime has been attended by something besides the anti-Hammonds talk. Governor Johnston has been accused of being a Rosicrucian.* He has been suspected of trafficking in the supernal with Mrs. Hammonds' uncle, one James R. Armstrong, who is said to study the Yogi philosophy. Oklahomans embellish their stories about Governor Johnston with sarcastic references to gnomes, nymphs, sylphs, salamanders, crystal-gazing, mystic numbers. Newsgatherers relate how Governor Johnston once said he would sign a certain bill at a certain time "because the signs of the Zodiac will be favorable then." Was he joking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Oklahoma's Governor | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...Back to Methuselah Dramatist George Bernard Shaw predicted that in 30,000 years man would be born from an egg, a postadolescent, with a mind capable of reaching the modern mind's highest development in four years, after which he would graduate into being an "Ancient," a Yogi-like creature with no low passions or appetites, not even the vulgar craving for sleep. To Irénée du Pont, vice chairman of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., 30,000 years seems a long time to wait for creative evolution to reach this point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

Sheila, after a narrow escape from the drug habit, has an even narrower one from a so-called "Butterfly Club " conducted by a sticky Hindu pseudo yogi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pirates and Flappers* | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

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