Word: propheteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less able political prophet than Franklin Roosevelt could foretell that the next Congress would undoubtedly restore the remaining third of the Federal pay cut by July 1 if not sooner. Last week the President acted, astutely timing his announcement a few days before election. To be restored was the last third as of July 1, 1935 on the grounds that by that time the increase in living cost would make it necessary and equitable...
Jayhawker (by Sinclair Lewis & Lloyd Lewis; Henry Hammond. Inc., producer). Mr. Lloyd Lewis, the historian (Myths after Lincoln; Sherman, Fighting Prophet) and Mr. Sinclair Lewis, as resourceful a story-teller as the nation has produced, have concocted between them a Civil War episode which will be found in none of the history books. They would have the audience believe that in June 1864, a Kansas Senator and a Confederate general, himself a onetime U. S. Senator, planned to have both sides declare an armistice, march united against the French interlopers in Mexico, thus put an end to fraternal bloodshed...
...Leslie is neither the familiar "laudator temporis acti" not the unheeded prophet wailing in the wilderness, He does not come to censure or to praise. His general purpose is not historical, of course, for that adjective would be too dignified for one man's impressions of the times in which he lives...
...best-selling book (The Night Club Era ) and to pose for a full-page testimonial for Gruen watches in the Satevepost. He is reputed one of the ablest news executives in the land, although he will be only 36 this week. Last week he established himself as a prophet of his profession with a new book. City Editor.* City Editor is salty, rambling shoptalk and third-highball-philosophy of what the author calls "the greatest business on earth.'' Says he: "The business . . . calls for the best. Sometimes it mistreats its best, starves them, and then throws them into...
HENRY FOR HUGH-Ford Madox Ford -Lippincott ($2.50). Sequel to The Rash Act; Author Ford considers it "the best piece of work I have yet done." THE DEATH AND BIRTH OF DAVID MARKAND - Waldo Frank - Scribner ($2.75). The latest of Prophet Frank's novels of "mystical realism," this is less interesting as a novel than as prophecy- a symbolic tale of how a contemporary U. S. businessman cast off the old Republican Adam, found himself. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST-Marcel Proust-Random House ($12.50). Proustians will want this four-volume edition of the late great Proust's magnum...