Word: propheteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sorel and damn him as the philosopher of Italian Fascism, whose appearance he predicted. Although Mussolini was inspired by Pareto, and made him a Senator, Translator Livingston doubts that Pareto approved of Mussolini or Fascismo, feels that his remarks when Mussolini took power were the expressions of a prophet's "I told you so!'' satisfaction...
...safe if we engage in a policy of yielding to each & all of the groups that are able to enforce upon the Congress claims for special consideration. We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want. I do not need to be a prophet to assert that if these certificates, due in 1945, are paid in full today, every candidate for election to the Senate or to the House of Representatives will in the near future be called upon in the name of patriotism to support general pension legislation for all veterans, regardless...
...dour Wilbur Glenn Voliva, overseer of the Christian Catholic (Apostolic) Church, longtime political boss of outlandish Zion, Ill., believer in a flat World and often prophet of its imminent end. the world which he had spent 25 years in building last week crumbled. Zion's voters defeated all but one of his candidates for local office. Creditors of Zion Industries and Institutions Inc., bent on a receivership reorganization which would exclude Voliva from all share in its management, had him haled into Federal court...
Spectacled Muralist Kadish and dapper Muralist Goldstein are both parlor pinks and both influenced by a Los Angeles esthete known as Lorser Feitelson. An able draughtsman with a shrewd eye for publicity, Artist Feitelson was anxiously trying to burst into the news last week as the prophet of a new art movement called Post-Surrealism or New Classicism. As an example of his new school's work he presented his own canvas entitled Genesis. Similar to fresco painting in technique, it showed a young lady's rear, her navel reflected in a mirror, a rising...
...that the rugged individualists have contented themselves by taking ineffectual pot shots at its provisions. Keen observers feel that in the mad political scramble the bill will be so butchered that the resulting panacea will be based on the idea, preached by Justice Brandies when he was a prophet in the wilderness, that each state should experiment with the various theories, and that "out of such experience should come the most practical answer to each individual case," whether it be that of the so-called Wisconsin Reserve Plan or some other sort. Actually the greatest asset of unemployment insurance rests...