Word: propheteering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quit his post in 1933 as a protest against the prevailing Warren theories. Another was Professor James Harvey Rogers, who lost caste in Washington for criticizing the Administration's silver policies. There was even a self-appointed New Deal economist, Britain's Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas, prophet of coming U. S. booms...
...Early last week he wrote letters to newspapers repeating this prophecy. When July 10 came round Krakatoa, a volcanic island with a dreadful record, between Java and Sumatra, suddenly started erupting at two-minute intervals, hurling lava spume a half-mile above the rim.* When he heard of this Prophet Greenspan cried: "Gosh, that's wonderful...
...rotation cometh prophet after prophet, bribing the popular vote with promises of new outpourings of government largesse...
...persuaded Denver's Frederick Hunter. He had been toughened to politics by public school administration in Nebraska and California. In seven years as Chancellor he had done a good, progressive job of building University of Denver up from a "street car college" into a serviceable university. No scholar, prophet or pioneer, he had yet won his colleagues' respect by proving himself an able, diplomatic administrator. Last week he soothingly promised to spend a year looking over the situation in Oregon. "A new chancellor ought not to make, and will not make, any changes in the current policies," said...
...most extraordinary sportsmen in the world, the Aga Khan is the spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Muslems, the 44th lineal descendant of the Prophet Mohammed's Daughter Fatima, an honorary member of the Jockey Club and a member of His Majesty's Privy Council. He is so fond of pleasure that in the last five years his string of race horses, whose upkeep costs him $150,000 a year, have won nearly every important race in Europe, and become, with the possible exception of the Whitney stables in the U. S., the most valuable in the world...