Word: prophetizer
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...platform in a bare Manhattan hall last Sunday sat the divinely inspired Prophet, Seer and Revelator of 750,000 saints on earth?Heber Jedediah Grant, 78, stubble-bearded President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. With him sat his trusty First Counselor, pudding-jowled Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., one-time U. S. Ambassador to Mexico; his potent Presiding Bishop, rangy Sylvester Q. Cannon; his Eastern representative, Don Byron Colton, longtime U. S. Representative from Utah...
...congregation of New York City Mormons a local businessman named Fred G. Taylor repeatedly said: "All in favor of sustaining the appointment, signify in the usual manner." Repeatedly the members of the congregation signified by raising their hands that they approved of all their Church's officers from the Prophet, Seer & Revelator down to the Presiding Elder of Oceanside, L. I. When it was all over Mr. Taylor remarked "the vote seems to have been unanimous," and New York had its first "Stake of Zion...
...minor roles in the play were well up to the standard set by the lead parts. The performance of Robert L. McKee '37 as a drunkon man who comes into the royal chambers as an unconscious prophet of fate, was particularly noticeable, as was that of Munro L. Lyeth '37 who was a young soldier reporting the appearance of a ghost to the queen...
...less able political prophet than Franklin Roosevelt could foretell that the next Congress would undoubtedly restore the remaining third of the Federal pay cut by July 1 if not sooner. Last week the President acted, astutely timing his announcement a few days before election. To be restored was the last third as of July 1, 1935 on the grounds that by that time the increase in living cost would make it necessary and equitable...
Jayhawker (by Sinclair Lewis & Lloyd Lewis; Henry Hammond. Inc., producer). Mr. Lloyd Lewis, the historian (Myths after Lincoln; Sherman, Fighting Prophet) and Mr. Sinclair Lewis, as resourceful a story-teller as the nation has produced, have concocted between them a Civil War episode which will be found in none of the history books. They would have the audience believe that in June 1864, a Kansas Senator and a Confederate general, himself a onetime U. S. Senator, planned to have both sides declare an armistice, march united against the French interlopers in Mexico, thus put an end to fraternal bloodshed...