Word: prophetically
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...summer sombre Idaho Novelist Vardis Fisher, no Mormon himself though of pioneer Mormon stock, won the $7,500 Harper Prize Novel Contest with Children of God, a 769-page epic of Mormons and their two famed leaders, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Author Fisher told in lusty detail of Prophet Smith's plural marriages before his lynching by a mob at Carthage, Ill., in 1844. To Reorganized Mormons, who believe that Joseph Smith neither practiced nor preached polygamy, the book was a plural pain...
...confused with Mormonism proper is Reorganized Mormonism. After Founder Smith's death, most Mormons followed Brigham Young on a 1,500-mile trek to the Promised Land of Utah. There in 1852 Prophet Young publicly proclaimed polygamy as a divine doctrine which, he said, Founder Smith and a chosen few had secretly initiated a decade before...
Moslems never drink, because the Prophet told them not to. Hindus seldom do, because they consider it impolite to women and old men. One of the foremost aims of the Indian National Congress has been to introduce prohibition throughout India-as a demonstration that Indians can rule themselves as well as control themselves. British officials have opposed prohibition because liquor excise taxes have recently contributed 25% of provincial revenues. Besides, they say, why prohibit something which is already taboo? But last August the Congress Cabinet of the Bombay Presidency (pop. 26,400) prevailed, and put prohibition into effect...
...Prophet Smoot's bleak words were timely because in Washington last week Congress unlaced its economy corset, began to fling about the taxpayers' money. Fired by the Senate's prodigal example in upping the farm bill to a juicy billion dollars (TIME, March 18), the House set upon the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation bill, upped...
NAZARETH, Apr. 9, A.D. 30.-An examination of the records in this city has failed to bring to light anything in the early years of the young Galilean prophet, Jesus, which would have indicated anything of a violent or seditious nature in his character. Those who knew him when he was a lad say that his work in his father's carpenter shop was excellent, and that, although he was "a real boy," his conduct was blameless at all times...