Transcript The word Scrooge, to us, means a miser. Of course, it's from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. You remember: Bob Cratchit's mean and miserly boss is Ebenezer Scrooge. His bah, humbug! drains...
In the Great Depression, John Smithers lost his life savings. A woman read of Smithers’ downfall and bemoaned: “The investments of a lifetime! Gone!” But another woman who knew John said...
Two good friends fell into a passionate debate. In the heat of the moment, one man cursed the other. The man who received the insult said nothing. But he stooped and wrote in...
The man who headed New York's Salvation Army during its time of selfless service at Ground Zero began life predictably. Predictably bad. Joe Noland's alcoholic father lived at the bar. His...
Bob was a route salesman for Dr Pepper. He shared a story about my dad’s early days as head of a growing grocery chain. Bob set up special displays in those stores.
Peggy Wehmeyer, of the World Vision Report, recently interviewed Ryan Hreljac. When he was six, Ryan cried after hearing that African children had no wells for fresh drinking water. By age nine...
In 1960, a six-year-old named Ruby Bridges integrated New Orleans' public schools. Every morning, through screaming crowds, federal marshals escorted little Ruby to a school now boycotted by whites...
In the 1950s South, front bus seats were usually marked "whites only." Rosa Parks was not in the whites only section when she was told to give up her seat to a white...
A man once asked Robert E. Lee for his opinion of a fellow officer. Lee spoke of the man in the highest terms. This greatly astonished another officer who overheard and said to...
