If you are one of the circuit overseers who reads this, or at Bethel, you will need no identifier for the name. For those of you whose chime doesn't ring:
COs and DOs trembled in fear at this name, whose desk symbol was S. Powerful head of the Service Department, who could send you to Podunkville in a minute; your life was in his hands.
Knorr used him, savaged him. I remember him trembling after leaving Knorr's office, although putting on a good front that appeared unflappable.
For all intents and purposes, he WAS the Society in the U.S. The boss of all bosses in the office and the field. Controlled the rubber Watchtower Society stamp on mail. Yet he too was arguably a victim. So what do you do when you and your wife are getting older? You prepare. And so he did. And that's why others do it even today. What pisses me is the hypocrisy.
Was called on the carpet by Ray Franz for influence peddling. Yep.
Became a powerful enemy of Ray's and worked behind the scenes with those who wanted to topple him from the GB.
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max a few months back i spoke with a bro who knew Harley VERY VERY VERY WELL and everything you mentioned he told me as well- we talked for over 2hours and the accounts he related about CO's and DO's getting sent to Boones Farm, SD were just unreal
You see i always - even while at bethel wondered how the CO's got their new assignments= pOLITICS out the Ying Yang.
related this one CO asked if he could be assigned near his sick mom and instead of hooking my man up in Sept he SHAFTED HIM
HE SENT THE co as far away as he could his mom was in Bakersfield ,CA
they sent my boy to Vermont
another CO who asked to be sent to warmer weather due to him and his wife health problems- on the road over 30yrs
he sent them to the coldest place on the Earth- SHAFT THEM
SO I have heard the stories about him- his wife was nice, but i understood she has some issues that she too had to deal with and she was so nice- the only sister who would wear pants around bethel almost all the time.
i will have to share with you all the new dress code of the bethelites next time
if any of you want to read the life story of harley
look up -----Petty Officer- on the cdrom
###JT, did the housekeeper get a spirit-directed change of assignment to Kenya the next day?
no cause we made sure that he never found out
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