Word: propheteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy of terrorism, the war against religion, the rigid censorship in education, press and everything else--all these are but inseparable parts of the same general system which bear all the characteristics of a fanatical and intolerant doctrine of religion: 'No god but Karl Marx and Lenin his only prophet...
...last vote was in August (TIME, Sept. 2). On that occasion City Manager William Rowland Hopkins breathed a happy sigh, looked out into the night, and declaimed: "The future of Cleveland now seems to lie as straight and clear as yonder moonbeams." Had he been a sterner, less rhapsodical prophet, he would have chosen another simile, for last week, less constant than the moon, the City Council voted him out of the office he had held and defended for six years...
Prophecy is no new business for Professor Fisher, whose last previous prophetic utterance, however, proved false. Last fall Professor Fisher was prominent among the bull economists who saw no evil in the bull market. He scoffed at bearish forebodings, and even after the bull market had broken he compared its collapse to the failure of a fundamentally sound bank, wrecked only by a psychological "run" of frightened depositors. Professor Fisher's imperfections as clairvoyant were quickly recalled by a rival prophet, Roger Ward Babson of Babson Park, Mass., who said: "It should be recognized that he [Fisher] has changed...
Bernarr Macfadden, publisher, editor, physical culturist extraordinary, is to many in the U. S. a hissing and a byword; to many more he is a hero-prophet. Behold three books, issued by the same publisher on the same day, dedicated to him and his works. These books tell a good deal about Publisher-Editor-Physical Culturist Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden...