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Some expressed a desire for the complete prayer beginning, "Gentle Jesus meek and mild" used by the children of Publisher Farrar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

Said Publisher Farrar: "It's a new kind of censorship to me." His two children, John Jr., 4½, and Alison, 2½, he admitted, kneel each night and say "Gentle Jesus, meek and mild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Children's Prayers | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

Other States. In Alabama (estimated crop: 1,288,000 bales) Governor Benjamin Meek Miller frowned on legislative remedies to up cotton prices while in North Carolina (estimated crop: 715,000 bales) Governor Oliver Max Gardner turned his back on the South and appealed to President Hoover for a special cotton session of Congress on the ground that the problem was national and international. Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma (estimated crop: 1,254,000 bales) talked about a stiff tariff on long staple cotton, vaguely praised "uniform laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Drop-a-Crop | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...friend of Lenin, a prime voice of British Socialism. The train pulled in; a band struck up "The Internationale." The Muscovites roared: "Hail Bernard Shaw!" Troops swung into protecting lines down which Mr. Shaw marched, accompanied by Lady Astor and a group of other British notables including her meek husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Distinguished Visitors | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

...Shaw's meek wife stayed at home after Lady Astor promised to take good care of him. †Later last week workmen repairing the Kremlin came upon a secret vault containing more Tsarist gold and jewels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Distinguished Visitors | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

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