Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pennsylvania's manufacturers, led by Mason Owlett, descended on the governor's office in Harrisburg, singly and in angry droves. To all, Big Jim had the same answer: "If you think I'm going to give you a free seat in the grandstand at the same time I'm raising the price of the bleacher seats, you're crazy." After the tax bills had passed, he remarked to a friend: "Those bastards are so accustomed to getting their own way they make blueprints for their track and start scheduling trains over it right away. When...
...Enemy. Having made this proposition, Rivera burbled happily on: "I am an atheist, that's true, and I think any individual suffering from religion is sick. But . . . I'm not an enemy of Catholics any more than I am an enemy of those suffering from tuberculosis, myopia, paralysis...
This runaway conversation is reported in a book published this week, Children and Religion (Scribner; $2.50). Its author, Dora M. Chaplin, director of religious education at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill, Mass., cites it as an example of the kind of thing children hate-"the saccharine voice and the tense moments of imposed instruction." Instead, Author Chaplin recommends honest parental example and as little watering down of religious doctrine as possible...
...John H. Lewis, who had been one of the first to see the 1946 bear trend, was still seeing the market in a cold grey light. But he confessed that he was lonely. "Until a few weeks ago I had a lot of company," he said. "Now, I'm about the only one left. The others have all jumped on the bull wagon...
Unfair Trade. In Los Angeles, a divorce was granted to Mrs. Arthur M. Hamburger after she testified that her husband insisted on doing the cooking, made her do the dishes...