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When at last the rains returned to nourish the olive crops, the poorer townspeople of Santisteban were happy in a prosperity such as they had never known before. The rich were not so happy. In April 1949, the wealthy industrialist whom

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Hizzoner Robin Hood | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...this conference." Said Britain's Sir Anthony Eden: "It is reasonable to look for real, if modest, progress." The President of the U.S. was more cautious. "We ... go there with very hopeful attitudes," said Dwight Eisenhower, "but that hope has got to have greater food on which to nourish itself before it can become anything like expectation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Prelude to the Parley | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...More patronage to nourish the two-party system. Technical and professional jobs should be excluded from patronage. So should jobs of special temptation, such as Internal Revenue Collectors. But the quality of government would probably be improved if men dealing directly with the public and men in policy-forming jobs were picked for their political talents and influence rather than by their occupational qualifications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: How to Manage | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

Therefore, the widespread suggestion to teach some kind of interdenominational religion in schools strikes Philosopher White as nonsensical. "Any educational effort to nourish religious feeling by trying to present an abstract essence of religion must fail . . . [We should] become frankly sectarian . . . and therefore limit higher religious instruction to the divinity schools which are properly devoted to the study and the propagation of specific religions conceived as total ways of life, knowledge, emotion and action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God v. Grab Bag | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

Thank you for the superb report [Sept. 6] on Evanston . . . Your summary highlights much of that digestible bread of life which can nourish us all and strengthen hope in very practical respects. Thank God for the outcome and promise of the second World Assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 27, 1954 | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

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