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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...
...conqueror. He was a conqueror. Marcus Alonzo Hanna, son of Leonard Hanna, well-to-do wholesale grocer and ship owner, was born in New Lisbon, Ohio, in 1837. All his life Ohio was his empire. Until the Presidential campaign of 1896, when Bryan, the silver-tongued prophet of Free Silver, ran against Hanna's man McKinley, he was hardly known outside Ohio's borders. He worked at his father's grocery and shipping business until he had made a fortune out of it; married Charlotte Augusta Rhodes, daughter of Coal-and-Iron-King Daniel Rhodes, lost...
March upset the Throne of Nicholas II. Kerensky's power did not survive October. Before the turn of the new year Lenin and Trotsky were the Gods of Moscow, and Bukharin was their Prophet. He remained for eleven years?until only a few months ago?the most potent of Soviet editors and publicists. He watched Lenin die. He saw Trotsky exiled for a "Left Heresy" (TiME, Jan. 30, 1928), and as Editor of Pravda, foremost Red daily, gave his old friend many a parting editorial kick. He became the closest confidant, and was called the "brains" of Soviet Dictator Josef...
...Jesse L. Lasky, who is rapidly becoming the prophet, as well as the co-boss of the cinema industry, last week issued another of his incisive and optimistic manifestoes. Determined to be quite judicial about everything, Mr. Lasky confessed that, in the quaint old days of the silent films, the screen producers were inclined to be a bit imitative. A successful underworld film meant a lengthy series of cops-and-robbers melodramas, and, one popular, mystery play would bring about a brood of sleuth narratives. Now, he proclaimed, the period of such foolishness has ended and the coming...