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Intuitive Herr Hitler appointed as the new President of the Reichsbank perhaps the greatest prophet of modern times. Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, "that tough Schleswiger from the Town of Tinglev" (in Denmark) whose parents resided in Brooklyn until shortly before his birth, when they removed to Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Schacht Back! | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

...Nope. I'm no prophet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smith & R. F. C. | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

...Prophet Mohammed's favorite color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Word for God | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

Squinting skyward last week, Turks looked for the new moon. When they should see it Ramadan would begin, Ramadan the mystic month in which the Koran was revealed to Prophet Mohammed. This year the first glint of the new moon had a special, dread significance. Turks had been ordered by their stern dictator, Mustafa Kemal Pasha who made them drop the veil and the fez (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926 et seg.), that beginning with Ramadan they must no longer call their god by his Arabic name, Allah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Allah & Opium | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

SHERMAN: FIGHTING PROPHET-Lloyd Lewis-Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cump Sherman | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

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