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...Significance. That such a convinced prophet of footless negation can find a publisher, even in Manhattan, may be a sign that the U. S., like Pauline Athens, has an altar ready for the Unknown God. Or it may merely indicate that Anything Goes. But most curious is the fact that Fort has a following of some note, who have formed a Fortean Society to praise his name. Publisher Kendall's jacket blurb is enthusiastically contributed to by Authors Theodore Dreiser, Booth Tarkington, Harry Elmer Barnes, John Cowper Powys, Ben Hecht (who announced himself "the first disciple of Charles Fort...
...grave. Just before his 122nd birthday last week there was published his 112th biography, Lincoln: The Man? by Poet Edgar Lee Masters. Unlike his Illinois neighbor Poet Carl Sandburg, whose Lincoln biography is a labor of love, morose Poet Masters pictures the Emancipator not as a warm-hearted prairie prophet but as a cold, lazy fanatic. Kansas-born, Poet Masters spent his boyhood at Petersburg, Ill,., went to Knox College (Galesburg), grew up swaddled in the Lincoln legend which he now repudiates. His grandfather hired Lincoln as a lawyer in 1847. His father was for eight years the law partner...
Warburg. To the directors of Manhattan Co. and its banking units, last week Paul Moritz Warburg presented his views. For having denounced the speculative orgy of 1929 and predicting its inevitable end (TIME, May 19), shrewd Banker Warburg gained a reputation as a good prophet, has not lost it by premature optimism. Last week he called the business cycle "a subject for psychologists rather than for economists," said the Government could serve a better purpose by squashing booms rather than vainly attempting to halt depressions. He too denounced tariffs, artificial attempts to fix prices...
...Cabinet members heartily took their cue from President Hoover in predicting, almost to the day, when it would end. The failure of these forecasts eventually reduced the White House to glum silence, muffled the Cabinet. Last week, however, Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament uttered one more Administration prophecy. Prophet Lament was very cautious, very vague. Said he: "The apparent retardation in the rate of downward movement in several basic indexes of business, supports the belief that the elements of recession have now spent most of their force. . . . While it is impossible to forecast at what time unmistakable evidence...
...Author. Like many a home-grown U. S. prophet, Upton Sinclair is not without honor in other countries. His books are well-known and admired by many a radical group in foreign lands; they have been published in 34 countries outside the U. S. Says he: "The thing to which this author is 'dedicated' is the promotion of social justice throughout the world. If, however, he were 'dedicated to a sense of his own importance,' it would not be so surprising, considering how many editors and critics are 'dedicated' to a sense...