Word: brande
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American public as the champion of governmental efficiency. In New York State, efficiency has meant continual surpluses: $163,000,000 in 1945, and $188,000,000 in 1946. It has meant a huge kitty of around $500,000,000 called the Postwar Reconstruction Fund. But Mr. Dewey's brand of efficiency has also meant far too little in large-scales housing and far too little in state adds to education. These aids have risen by 55 per cent in New York since 1989, but in the nation as a whole, they have jumped 141 per cent in the same period...
...purpose is to slur the persons of our membership, the column is unworthy of any notice. But if the calumny is intended to brand our organization with the stamp of reaction, perhaps the following comments are in order...
...tribute to Harvard that it did not retaliate in kind to this brand of play, and still managed to perform as effectively as they did. The lowly civilans from Cambridge never resorted to anything but football, and by keeping it clean they only added that much more to the already great credit they deserve...
...bloom off the Crosby deal. But Vacuum hopes to step up output enough to fill the new orders Crosby will bring in. And in the scramble for the new market, Vacuum figures that Crosby is just the Pied Piper needed to lure customers away from the old brand names...
Divorced. Iva Sergei Voidato ("Pat") Patcevitch, 47, dapper, Russian-born president of Condé Nast Publications (Vogue, Glamour): by Nadejda Gelli-brand Patcevitch, beauteous onetime Vogue (of London) staffer; after fifteen years of marriage, no children; in Reno...