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...wisdom was not even his own; it was just a lot of words put in his mouth by his ghostwriter and his Egyptian wife. The real Solomon, according to Fisher, was a phony liberal with a father complex and a massive sexual overcompensation; his quarrel with the prophet Ahijah* was an exchange of irrelevancies between a dilettante and a fanatic...
None of those who came to Washington with Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal held on to his job longer than Marriner S. Eccles, the onetime Mormon missionary who became the Administration's financial prophet. At a time when even F.D.R. was talking about a balanced budget, Eccles, a successful banker and a Republican, dumfounded his colleagues by proposing that the U.S. "spend" its way out of depression. Before a Senate committee in 1933, he described the need for many of the alphabet agencies which later came into being. But Eccles never considered himself a New Dealer...
Parting Shot. This week, after 17 years on the FRB, Marriner Eccles was ready to hand in his resignation. He wanted to go back to run his family's Utah banks, sugar factories and lumber mills. As befits a departing prophet, Marriner Eccles left behind a book of revelations-his autobiography (Beckoning Frontiers; Alfred A. Knopf, New York, $5), published this week. His most interesting revelation concerned his own demotion. Never able to get Truman to tell him why he was moved out of the FRB chair, Eccles thinks it was because he (Eccles) wanted to clip the power...
Last week Natalia Trotsky issued a bitter condemnation: the Socialist Workers Party, she said, had broken faith with the prophet. Wrote she to the party paper, the Militant of New York City: her husband would not have approved "supporting the armies of Stalinism in the war which is being endured by the anguished Korean people. I cannot and will not follow you in this...
...past generation, as "the religious factors in anti-Semitism have become less prominent." There seems to be a trend, he says, toward bringing Jesus back into "the mainstream of Jewish history. A Jewish basis has been found for most of his teachings. His stature is that of the Hebrew prophet, fearless fighter for righteousness. Like all religious geniuses, he was unique. As with Isaiah and Amos before him, he did not merely echo his people's convictions...