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...Disguised as a fortune teller of Damasciis (see p. 45). Not to be confused with famed Bartab Koran, a crystal gazer, who claims' credit for forecasting President Hoover's election in 19-28, the Japanese earthquake, the Manchurian crisis. Attracting enormous crowds to vaudeville, Bartab Koran has predicted that this year Newton Diehl Baker would be nominated by the Democrats, that the Democrats will carry all before them until Election Day when Herbert Hoover will be reelected. Calling at the White House, he was photographed with the President to whom he gave a gold idol from Tibet...
Prophet Mohammed in the Holy Koran set no minimum age for brides. The Government's new law setting a minimum age of 16, argued the Koranic priests, was clearly un-Mohammedan, since all that the Prophet specified was that a bride should be "marriageable." Meeting the Church on its own ground last week the Ministry of Justice agreed to alter the law so that when a prospective bride is less than 16 years old she may petition the Ministry of Health, claiming to be "marriageable" and offer herself for scientific examination. If Science decides in her favor...
Observers suspected the Exalted Nizam of guile. According to the Koran, the Caliph of Islam must be a temporal ruler. Palestine Moslems have been trying for years, were still trying last week, to establish the present deposed Caliph in Jerusalem as "ruler" of a plot of ground about the size of the Papal State. In London this scheme is being urged by Shankat Ali, Moslem Delegate to the Indian Round Table Conference. But Christian Britain, who rules Jerusalem, hesitates to make the "Holy City" of Jews and Christians the seat of Islam's Caliphate. What...
Lamp Posts, Booze, Chisels. Like Prophet Mohammed's original Koran, Tycoon Ford's Moving Forward is best read in stimulating snatches. Its inconsistencies, some irreconcilable, are not the point. Snatches...
...Ford Koran. The day after U. S. papers reported the cornerstone laying, shrewd Doubleday, Doran & Co. released Moving Forward, By Henry Ford in collaboration with Samuel Crowther ($2.50). The earlier Ford-Crowther Book My Life and Work, translated into eleven languages, was a German best seller for two years. The new work is definitely more significant, not a biography but an attempt by Henry Ford to speak with the voice of New America, brushing aside many an "eternal standard," postulating new motives for U. S. tycoons, pointing new U. S. goals...