Word: loehr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles Burnham, G.P. Goold, Classics Max Loehr, Fine Arts George Quester. Government Edward Wilcox. General Education
...experiment was conceived at the beginning of the term in order to test the claims of Reverend Franklin W. Loehr of Los Angeles, whose book, The Power of Prayer on Plants, has enjoyed popular success among not-too-green-thumbed housewives...
...Loehr called for an alliance of religion and science, since it was apparent from the results of his experiments that prayer could become a powerful laboratory tool. Not only could America invoke God's help to increase its food production, he said, but since prayer can be employed negatively--as in stunting the growth of cancer tissue--we of God's country can also bring famine to the atheistic nations of the East...
...Loehr reported that when he told Richard Nixon of his discovery, the then vice-President told him, "That sounds like a good kind of thinking...
...well as some of the most enervating and profitable books known to publishing, purveys non-religion in endless series of similarly named volumes, all of them containing at least one poem by Joyce Kilmer. This curious subindustry reached its perihelion a couple of years ago with Presbyterian Minister Franklin Loehr's The Power of Prayer on Plants...