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...Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), of which shrewd old Heber Jedediah Grant is Prophet, Seer & Revelator, owns sugar-beet fields, banks, hotels, the oldest U. S. department store (Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution, Salt Lake City). During Depression, however, Mormons felt the pinch like everyone else. By this year 88,000 of the Church's 638,000 members were on relief rolls. Last month the Mormon First Presidency, whose absolute head is Heber Grant, resolved to take the indigent Saints off relief by next Jan. 1. Revealed last week were full details...
...Everybody said Mahmoud would not stay the course, but by judicious handling I made him stay." This statement was made last week not by Jockey Charles Smirke, who had just ridden Mahmoud to victory in the Derby at Epsom Downs, England, but by the 44th lineal descendant of the Prophet Mohammed's daughter, Fatima: Aga Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah, His Highness the Aga Khan, Mahmoud's haunchy, paunchy brown-skinned owner, who was still waving his silk hat to show his enthusiasm. To balance his excited hyperbole the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Moslems...
...their zeal by registering with the central bureau in Washington, but have been stopped on the threshhold of a shining success by the lack of leadership. No one has stepped forward to take on his shoulders the flaming mantle of the great Jouet Shouse. In this crying wilderness no prophet has arisen to lead the children to the promised land with the fervour of the noble Alfred Emmanuel, or the disinterested spirit of self-sacrifice and public duty exemplified by the trible of DuPont...
Henry Louis Mencken has filled some 15 books and countless heads with his brilliant palaver. The Billiken-god of a generation that read his Smart Set like so many monthly revelations, he emancipated many a corn-fed adolescent. Mencken was an iconoclastic prophet but not an indignant one. "As an American," he said once, "I naturally spend most of my time laugh-ing." And his brilliance, like that of his fellow-iconoclast, Bernard Shaw, has not always done him justice. Some of his trumpetings have merely deafened the ears they assaulted, some of his more winning piccolo-and-bassoon effects...
...Prophet Of Gloom Note: Word comes to us of a respectable middle-aged maid of Teutonic extraction who suddenly gave notice to her employers the other day after having lived with them in peace and quiet these twenty years. It seems she has her mind set on returning to Germany. When everyone asked in God's name why, she finally admitted she felt she'd like to say good-bye to her family. . . . "before the war". (V.F.W. might note...