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...need not be a prophet," warned President William Henry Dick of the Mississippi River Flood Control Association last week, "to forecast another flood for this spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Flood Forecast | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...younger days who saddled Great Britain with the Income Tax Act. Today at 71 he hopes to stump up enough enthusiasm for his New Deal to be called to power in coalition with a Labor Government after the next general election. "Labor will win a big electoral victory," declared Prophet Lloyd George, "but will be unable to govern effectively . . . alone. ... I am ready to co-operate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Dec. 24, 1934 | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

Based on a reference in the Book of Isaiah (54:2) to a stake strengthening a tent, the Mormon Stake of Zion was established by Prophet-Founder Joseph Smith as the counterpart of a Gentile diocese. Half of the Church's 110 Stakes are in Utah, the largest ones being in Salt Lake City which has 56,000 Mormons. Idaho and California have Stakes. San Francisco got its first one last fortnight. But until last week no state east of Colorado had enough Mormons for a Stake, not even New York where Joseph Smith first saw visions, received from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Stake of Zion | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...most interest to New York Mormons last week was the presence of their Prophet, Seer & Revelator, who resembles the late "Uncle Joe" Cannon, and talks in the homely, crackling manner of a country storekeeper. President Grant told his listeners how, 52 years ago when he first held Mormon office, the Church had but 1,300 followers outside Utah (at present it has 100,000). He spoke of his troubles as a missionary in England, where he could not get a word in the newspapers to refute the abuse heaped on his faith. "Today," said he, "we are treated splendidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Stake of Zion | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...Veblen was no prophet of things-as-they-should-be but an analyst of things-as-they-are. He gave no answers, put many a stumping question. No one was ever quite sure just what Veblen himself believed. Biographer Dorfman hazards no opinion, concludes that "the question as to the exact nature of his influence remains still to be answered." A week before his death, in a little shack in Palo Alto, he penciled a typical testament: "It is ... my wish . . . that my ashes be thrown loose into the sea, or into some sizable stream running to the sea; that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Question Raiser | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

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