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...When Russia invaded Finland, Author Joyce wrote: "The most curious comment I have received on the book is a symbolical one from Helsinki, where, as foretold by the prophet, the Finn again wakes...
Rich, benevolent Sir Sayed had a reputation as an apostle of Allah to maintain. Although his fighting father had killed General ("Chinese") Gordon, King George V had forgiven and knighted the son. Now Sir Sayed determined to break the market, enable his followers to obey the Prophet's injunction: marry and beget sons...
...Father Miller built his tabernacle there and won wide fame by convincing a large Boston congregation that: "The end of the world will surely be in Eighteen Hundred and Forty-Three." Unfortunately for the prophet, in 1844 he had to revise the calculation and his fickle flock deserted him. A group of prominent Bostonians bought the building and converted it into an opera house after changing the name to the "Howard Athenaeum." There, in 1846, genuine Italian opera had its New England premiere with a performance of Verdi's "Ernani," and Sheridan's "Rivals" played to toney audiences from Beacon...
...there no hope for a postwar boom in the $100,000,000,000 which U.S. civilians have tucked away in savings? No, says Prophet Cherne. "Everything will compel you to hold on to your money rather than spend it. ... There will be termination [of war contracts], unemployment . . . take-home pay will fall because of the reduction in hours and overtime. You're going to wait for prices to come down . . . for new products. . . . Most important, the war economy didn't tighten your belt too uncomfortably. . . . You haven't been starved enough so you'll want to rush out madly...
...many a cheerful hardhead, remembering some of Prophet Cherne's previous misfires, will empty the saltcellar on these predictions. Cassandra Cherne has been wrong before: notably when he erred by some $32,000,000,000 in his gloomy foreboding that war would cut the U.S. standard of living 25%. And some of Cherne's "startling" facts are not so startling e.g., that one-fifth of the nation's land (long in the public domain) is owned by the Federal Government, that this is somehow a threat to private enterprise. And even pushovers will wonder how Cassandra Cherne reaches his last...