Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prophet. If Elijah prophesied today, would it be News? The 14th Edition contains the words of a modern prophet. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah. Writing on the Mormons, of which he is one, he says: "Here [in Jackson County, Mo.] a holy city is yet to be built by the Church, a new Jerusalem, into which will be gathered those of all nations...
...certain prophet offered last week the following forecast of the tariff bill debate...
...Smith from building the highest building in New York. Then will be a two weeks' discussion on prohibition, followed by ten days of Arizona Senators denouncing the Boulder Dam. "And by Christmas you won't know whether the birds got any seed or not.'' The prophet, Mr. Will Rogers, was wrong. The tariff bill was presented in the Senate last week by Senator Smoot. Two resolutions were offered calling upon the Treasury Department to open income tax reports of corporations. Another resolution directed that the bill be returned to Committee to strike out all tariff changes...
Until last week, when Evangelist McPherson sought a California charter for a $1,500,000 hotel corporation, nothing she has attempted is so pretentious as the Apostolic Church of Zion. Bankrupt in 1907 on the death of First Prophet John Alexander Dowie (who stoutly insisted that the devil was a Methodist), Zion City has regained its solvency under rising real estate values and the shrewd rule of Overseer Voliva. Tall, stern-faced, he runs the city of 6,300 on a communal plan, renting the land under 1,100-year leases and controlling the few industries. A feature...
...Shaw has nothing new to say. The forces which he has created have moved beyond him. He is no longer a prophet but a rather pathetic figure, unconscious of the changes which he has wrought...