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...Uniting Conference, President Roosevelt sent an approving message: "To a world distracted by malice, envy and ill will . . . a harbinger of better things. . . . The Methodists have pointed the way. . . . May God prosper the work . . . combat the forces of strife that threaten our heritage of religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Methodist Merger | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...truth of the matter is that we have among us a group of very clever men possessing the morality of dope-peddlers or munitions manufacturers whose maxim is, "the consumer is responsible for his own folly." These men will continue to prosper, barring violence to their persons, as long as students lack pride in their own work and would just as soon "let George do it" for a few dollars. One slacker in the student body tends to ruin the morale of the whole, since such a one can boast to his working comrades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Letter on Tutoring | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Yankee must lead America on a wise course if the Yankee is to prosper," Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology, said yesterday, when he addressed a conference of Y. M. C. A. leaders at Springfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YANKEE MUST LEAD AMERICA | 4/15/1939 | See Source »

...immediate gains. Its late, revered Publisher Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney, who died in 1926, never tired of preaching that the South would progress only when it taught its farmers to diversify their crops, raise most of their own food. That is the key-note of the Plant-to-Prosper campaign, started in 1933 by the Commercial Appeal now promoted also by the Atlanta Constitution, Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, Chattanooga News. Winner Majure and his family of eight raised $225 worth of their own food this year, have $220 worth on hand, not including some hogs killed this month. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plant-to-Prosper | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Typical report from a local Plant-to-Prosper winner: "We tore down an old outhouse and saved the roofing and flooring to build an additional room to our home. . . . We set out seven shade trees and 25 fruit trees . . . have taken better care of the hens, cows, pigs, garden and truck patches. . . ." One Missouri tenant farmer's wife was so enthusiastic she sewed "Plant-to-Prosper" on her son's basketball uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plant-to-Prosper | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

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