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Mize is so sure that his methods are practical that he has just bought another poorhouse and hopes to open a second unit of St. Francis. He is now out raising money to pay for it and to meet St. Francis' $22,000 budget for next year. New contributors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christian Experiment | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Spark for an Engine. The Harriman Committee concerned itself less with administrative details than with the ability of the U.S. to meet Europe's needs. The very bulk of its 3-lb. 14-oz. report inspired confidence. Its air of hardheaded realism, resulting largely from the shirtsleeve editing of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Deed | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

A definite public attitude in the U.S. toward Western Europe was finally taking shape. The attitude in most respects reflected U.S. citizens at their best-a neighborly people, willing to help and prompted by humanitarian impulses, but nevertheless hardheaded and cautious.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: No Pig-in-a-Poke | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Green's thinking reflected that of the federation. The A.F.L. had survived and grown in an unsympathetic world by a hardheaded conservatism. Under Samuel Gompers it shunned politics. It had only one real objective-wages, and more wages. It preferred to take what it could get without many risks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Man from Hardscrabble Hill | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

The deal to develop Liberia by stimulating trade was a mixture of free-trading idealism and hardheaded business. With an eye on all the backward countries of the world, Stettinius said: "With our technique and know-how, it just isn't necessary for them to live poorly. I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Idealism, Inc. | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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