Word: propheteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet members heartily took their cue from President Hoover in predicting, almost to the day, when it would end. The failure of these forecasts eventually reduced the White House to glum silence, muffled the Cabinet. Last week, however, Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament uttered one more Administration prophecy. Prophet Lament was very cautious, very vague. Said he: "The apparent retardation in the rate of downward movement in several basic indexes of business, supports the belief that the elements of recession have now spent most of their force. . . . While it is impossible to forecast at what time unmistakable evidence...
...Author. Like many a home-grown U. S. prophet, Upton Sinclair is not without honor in other countries. His books are well-known and admired by many a radical group in foreign lands; they have been published in 34 countries outside the U. S. Says he: "The thing to which this author is 'dedicated' is the promotion of social justice throughout the world. If, however, he were 'dedicated to a sense of his own importance,' it would not be so surprising, considering how many editors and critics are 'dedicated' to a sense...
Russell, who came from a poor family and went to work in an accounting office when 17 years old to help support his parents, has since become one of Ireland's foremost men of letters. He has at various times been a poet, painter, critic, dramatist, prophet, economist, and a gentleman-farmer...
...never has in the past, and I am no prophet," he answered...
George W. Russell, AE, Irish poet, painter, critic, economist, dramatist, and prophet will speak at the Union on January 7, 1931 at 8 o'clock. The subject of his talk has not yet been announced...