"There's many a king on a gilded throne But there's only one king on an ice-cream cone. So we crown him today with friendly acclaim, All over the country we'll blazen his name. With hot dogs barking in approbation, He's the man who believes he can feed the nation." — Howard Johnson's, 1940
Like many like-minded entrepreneurs, his dream was built on a simple idea with blazing clarity: "I figured that America really preferred good food nicely served," and if it was made "as attractive as I knew how, easy to look at and hard to forget," it would surely be successful, reasoned the founder of the eponymous restaurant, Howard Johnson, during The Great Depression.
Washington D.C. — The United States government has an opportunity to end its legal battle with the Little Sisters of the Poor and the administration must "seize that opportunity," legal experts are maintaining.
"In a nation dedicated to religious liberty, church-state conflict on this scale should be avoided whenever possible – and once started, ended as soon and as agreeably as possible," legal counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops stated in Sept. 9 comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
