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...Cassandra was always right, but nobody believed her. A great many people, however, believe Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, vice president of the Cleveland Trust Co., who last year predicted that the bottom of Depression II would come in the first half of 1938. Last week tycoonry's favorite seer gave his followers a lavish exhibition of his powers by predicting practically everything for the coming year except the dew point in Wall Street at midnight on Friday, June 23. Excerpts...
...after the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby (1932), U. S. radio listeners first heard Harold Thomas Henry (Boake) Carter's news comments on a national hookup. Long before the baby's body had been found, Commentator Carter had become the British baritone Cassandra of news broadcasting, cloaking his accounts of daily events in a tone of dark menace. Last year a menace vague as his own rose over the Boake Carter broadcasts, has hovered there ever since...
...makes them accept in Time and the Conways' first act is a boring family party. The Conways are celebrating Daughter Kay's (Jessica Tandy) 21st birthday by playing charades and talking big about the future. All of them look forward to successful careers, happy marriages. Suddenly Kay, Cassandra-like, peers into the night and foresees the drab reality...
...Welshman. "Earn some respect for Britain! ... I'd rather have Italy's anger than Italy's contempt." As they left town for England's long Easter holiday, rusticating members of His Majesty's Government ignored a Laborite M. P. who attempted the role of Cassandra. "The most dreaded contingency is near-a German attack on Czechoslovakia," cried Independent Miss Eleanor Rathbone...
...1870s, a Cassandra appeared on this happy scene in the person of Jay Gould, who dickered with Jefferson's soft-spoken businessmen about the possibility of putting through a branch of his Texas & Pacific Railroad to connect the city overland northeast with Texarkana and the T. & P. main line. Annoyed when the Jeffersonians would not talk his kind of turkey, the black-whiskered railroad baron clapped on his plug hat and walked out croaking a curse on the whole pack of them: "Bats will roost in your belfries, trees thrust branches through mouldering buildings, grass grow in your streets...