The morning after he had joined the church, many of his neighbors, in congratulating him upon his new departure, said to him: Well, Sam, I hope you. will stick, whereupon Mr. Jones remarked that he liked a religion with stickability in it, and a man with stickability in him.

Some well-to-do pageanteers evidently traveled around the country to appear in one pageant after another.

It would later be revealed that the corporation contributed over a quarter of a million dollars to the effort—a whopping 93 percent of the total coffer—and hired a team of media and political experts to mastermind it.

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