Word: zion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zion, Ill. a mechanic named Carl Swanson built a homemade plane of washing machine parts, baling wire, canvas, door hinges, equipped it with a motorcycle engine, took it up for a test-flight last week. Pilot Swanson had never had a flying lesson. The flight ended after three minutes. His condition: serious...
...dour Wilbur Glenn Voliva, overseer of the Christian Catholic (Apostolic) Church, longtime political boss of outlandish Zion, Ill., believer in a flat World and often prophet of its imminent end. the world which he had spent 25 years in building last week crumbled. Zion's voters defeated all but one of his candidates for local office. Creditors of Zion Industries and Institutions Inc., bent on a receivership reorganization which would exclude Voliva from all share in its management, had him haled into Federal court...
...Zion's new Mayor, a 47-year-old grandfather named William M. Edwards who once replastered the White House while President Coolidge was vacationing in the Black Hills, hates Wilbur Glenn Voliva both for his tyranny and for his laxity. Mayor Edwards promised to enforce each & every one of Zion's laws against short skirts, low necks, bare arms, dancing, cinemas, pool, cards, tobacco, profanity, chewing gum, pork and oysters...
Editor Lewis Oliver Hartman of Zion's Herald, 112-year-old voice of Methodism in New England, had heard no "call to prayer from the pen of the present President of the United States." He felt "impressed with the crying need of such a summons at a time like this." So Editor Hartman printed on the cover of his last week's issue a call to prayer by Abraham Lincoln and on his editorial page he sorrowfully flayed Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Zion's Herald's cover was a proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863.* In this, one of at least three calls to prayer uttered by President Lincoln, he reminded the nation that "we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown; but we have forgotten God." Indeed, wrote the President, "may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins...