Word: propheteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Prophet, Seer & Revelator of the world's 746,384 Mormons observed his 80th birthday. Hale & happy for such tributes as having a whole issue of the Mormon Improvement Era devoted to his life and works, President Heber Jedediah Grant of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints arrived in Chicago on Mormon business bent. The 2,000 Mormons who live in and around Chicago and Wisconsin were also happy. Heretofore shepherded by Mormon missionaries, they became full-fledged members of the Church last Sunday when President Grant organized their territory into Mormonism...
Sailing from Manhattan last week for a vacation in Ireland, James Aloysius Farley risked his shining reputation as a prophet with a new prediction. The man who was right about Election solemnly declared: "It is my firm belief that the country will soon have the most prosperous time in all its history. . . . This Christmas will be the best and most prosperous in the history of the nation. I am sure that we will see people spending more money than in any previous Administration...
Publisher Hearst had staked his personal reputation as a prophet on Governor Landon. Far greater was the stake risked and lost by the publishers of the respected old Literary Digest, whose famed straw vote had polled by mail 1,293,669 votes for Alfred Landon, 972,897 for Franklin Roosevelt. In the face of actual returns, the publishing trade buzzed with rumors about what the Digest had done or would do: that it had been bought with Republican or Hearstian gold, that its editors had bet and lost a fortune on the vote, that it would never again attempt...
...Court, and sees withdrawal from European entanglements as the sound American policy for the present. His articles on international affairs are small in bulk, considering the series of erlscs that began in Europe in March, 1933. They, like the other places, show him to be not always a good prophet, but usually a sound observer...
...poetry was only surpassed by her industry in talking about them. The most truly astounding aspect of her work for "the new poetry" is surely the indefatigableness she displayed in her lectures. She talked from Maine to Texas; and though it is said that no man is a prophet in his own country, Miss Lowell could jam Paine Hall and the lecture-room at the Boston Public Library--and repeat these accomplishments. She made a nation poetry-conscious...