Word: propheteers
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...State Board of Agriculture- an elevated post! But he knew his business. He was offered an appointment to a vacancy in the U. S. Senate, refused it. Politics was not his business. He began to preach the doctrine of diversified farming. He "discovered" alfalfa and was a prophet of lucerne, as it was then called, when it was still unknown among its own people. His books, his pamphlets, his articles, went broadcast over Kansas, over the U. S., beyond the continent. They had fetching illustrations, wonderful titles: The Corns that Kansas Farmers Have, Alfalfa's Affinity...
...Henri de Kerillis, journalist, last week quoted a speech made by Painlevé in 1913, showing how the politicien made a bad prophecy, and asked if he may not now be a bad prophet. The 1913 speech: "Above their hateful militarism, the democracies of Germany and Austria offer us their hands and open their hearts to us. Citoyens, do not allow yourselves to be impressed by the phantoms of War stirred up by Reaction and Clericalism...
...usser is a wandering fanatic who arrived in Berlin soon after the War and announced himself as "the prophet of the millennium," "President of the United States of Europe" and "healer by the grace of God." He wanders all over Deutschland dressed in a scanty brown garment that leaves his legs bare...
Gandhi himself knew that this would be so. He realized that India was still too deeply in the clutches of a national slave mentality to compete successfully with the organization of the British government. Even still the prophet, unlike so many others, is not without honor. Even though his plans failed and he himself was shattered, the faith of his people in him and his principle remains unshaken...
...prophet, it is agreed, is without honor in his own country; and what with oil scandals and Labor ministries, the proverb might be stretched to describe the popular attitude toward national governments. The growing skepticism of the ability of the Federal government to compete with private enterprise in vigor or efficiency is sufficiently strong to make astounding the news that under--or despite government management the "Leviathan" has won the speed honors of the North Atlantic. But while this record is a pleasing tribute to the efficiency of the "Leviathan's officers, it serves by force of contrast to direct...