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...Wearing a green shirt, Poet Sohrab stood behind a small table upon which were three candles signifying: The Bab, martyred prophet of the Baha'i Movement; Baha-U-Llah, the Founder; Abdul Baha the Expounder & Promoter...
UPTON Sinclair, prophet extraordinary, has been telling the world what it was coming to for thirty years; and, despite his unorthodox economics and occasionally almost unbelievable naivete, he has usually succeeded in striking the gong with uncanny precision. His latest assumption of the role of seer, however, is not likely to add to his reputation as an oracle. "I, Governor of California, and How I Ended Poverty," subtitled "A True Story of the Future," is an account of the manner in which one Upton Sinclair, novelist, captured the California Democratic primaries in August, 1934, was elected Governor in November...
...motto, "I Produce, I Defend." No doubt such things have a magic all their own, but it seems just a bit optimistic to expect them to make Sinclair the next governor of California. Opposition from the Dark Powers is of course foreseen by the prophet, but apparently mostly in the form of attempts to compromise him with a beautiful blonde...
...daughter of the late Viscount Esher, his daughter is the wife of British Shipping Tycoon Lord Inchcape and his brother and heir Major Bertram Brooke is wedded to the onetime Gladys Palmer (Huntley & Palmers biscuits) who enjoys the distinction among Mohammedans of possessing the tunic of The Prophet, values...
Money having become the paramount issue, it must be startling to sound-money Democrats like Senators James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois and Carter Glass of Virginia to find themselves in the Right-wing bed with an old Republican fogey like Ohio's Fess, the prophet of Harding and Hoover, and Pennsylvania's Reed, the voice of Andrew Mellon. To Senator Lewis, Democratic whip, it must seem most peculiar because it was his unexpected election in 1930 which signaled the return of the Democracy to power, the beginning of a Left shift which was to pass even him. Senator...