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...better to keep young Americans at home--Maybe they may miss a little science, a little smattering of this or that, but, at least, we shall keep them better Americans and happier and sounder citizens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/11/1932 | See Source »

Said New York's Mayor Walker: "If we had a few more Lewisohns and a few less grouches in this city it would be even a happier place." Occasion: a testimonial concert at Hunter College to Adolph Lewisohn, famed philanthropist and music patron. In the course of eulogies of Mr. Lewisohn by Lieut.-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Lawyer George Gordon Battle et al., it was revealed that a chamber music foundation is being planned by a group of patrons headed by Mr. Lewisohn and including Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Otto Hermann Kahn, Theodore Steinway. Patron Lewisohn declared that he "would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 8, 1932 | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...investigation into the careers of college graduates revealed that those who graduated in a year of depression were more successful than those who left college in happier times. Here at least is some encouragement for the student who finishes his formal education when employment is difficult to obtain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DISCIPLINE OF ADVERSITY | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

...clothing, the housing of a nation is its most vital problem. . . . The sentiment for home ownership is embedded in the American heart [of] millions of people who dwell in tenements, apartments and rented rows of solid brick. . . . This aspiration penetrates the heart of our national wellbeing. It makes for happier married life. It makes for better children. It makes for courage to meet the battle of life. . . . There is a wide distinction between homes and mere housing. Those immortal ballads, 'Home, Sweet Home,' 'My Old Kentucky Home' and 'The Little Grey Home in the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Home, Sweet Home | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...August 28--Whether mankind be happier in a state of Nature or in Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former P. B. K. First Marshal Traces History of Organization | 12/4/1931 | See Source »

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