Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happy," he says, "if I can contribute just a little that will take some more of the gamble out of farming. Subsidies and price supports will never do that. The only thing they contribute is progress toward socialized farming-and that's the worst thing that could happen to this country...
...Texan who strikes it rich can expect to hear from a Linz salesman about the time he buys his first Cadillac. In their modest little sample cases the salesmen might carry a fortune in jewels. To stay out of the way of thieves, they travel under assumed names, never get too clubby in the club cars, and use a code to communicate with the home office. None has ever been robbed...
...flung Cardinal chain system (at one time they owned 16 farm teams, had working agreements with twelve others), which paid off handsomely: Breadon's high-flying Cardinals won nine National League pennants, six World Series, earned more than $8,000,000. Breadon, who said that he had never seen a funeral and did not want one for himself, requested that he be cremated and his ashes scattered in the Mississippi River...
...Raised Voices. In trying to find out why children become mentally ill, psychiatrists often cast a disapproving Freudian eye on parents. Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist Trude Tietze studied 25 mothers of schizophrenic patients. The mothers of schizophrenics, she reported in Psychiatry, are apt to be "subtly dominating." They never raise their voices to their children; they control by showing a "hurt" attitude, or by having a timely sick headache or fainting spell. The children thus have no chance for open rebellion...
...Wabash College and assistant professors Fletcher G. Watson '36 and Leohard K. Nash. The course will be repeated in 1940-50, and will be limited to 150 freshman and sophomore students. It is designed for men expecting to major in the social science or humanities, and who have never taken a college science course before...