Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio and hear Axis propaganda. The Shah confessed himself a frequent listener to Japanese broadcasts in Iranian. "The Japanese," he said, "never mention themselves, but always talk of what Germany can do for Iran. They . . . invariably describe Hitler as a Mohammedan who is a direct descendant of the Prophet, and who was born with a sacred green belt about his middle...
...West Point graduate ('15), he was stationed in Germany for six months after World War I, there met three brilliant young German officers whose sensational theories about total war launched him on a career as student of geopolitics. Today Colonel Beukema declares that history will rate Karl Haushofer, prophet of German geopolitics, more important than Adolf Hitler, because Haushofer's studies made possible Hitler's victories both in power politics...
...Prophet Smith was murdered by a mob in Carthage, Ill. in 1844. Prophet Stewart was placed in a psychiatric ward for observation...
...Manhattan (where he now lives) muttering: "Woe to her that is filthy and polluted! What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor?" For this descendant of many Dutch Calvinist divines is something of a modern Zachariah, a minor social prophet in the line of Tolstoy, Strindberg, Shaw and Ibsen. Pierre van Paassen knows how to number the sins and sound the trump of doom so mellifluously that his first book, Days of Our Years, sold 300,000 copies. Advance sales of That Day Alone last week reached...
...adjourned after one of his speeches, to let the spell of his eloquence expire), Fisher Ames looked like one of the most promising statesmen in U.S. history. But when Jefferson became President, launched his plans to reform the courts, bought Louisiana without bothering with Congress, Fisher Ames became a prophet of doom...