Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rocky" popped a blue Alfred University beanie on his head while 2,000 students cheered. In Wellsville he solemnly accepted 50? campaign contributions from two shy Brownie scouts. In Olean he let ward bosses wait while he strode into W. T. Grant's to shake more hands and buy a nickel's worth of green taffy. In Salamanca he grabbed a baton and directed the high school band, grabbed a hula hoop and, with a flourish, tossed it around his neck...
During those years, Nelson Rockefeller: ¶As Inter-American Affairs coordinator (1940-44), drew up a blacklist that steered U.S. businessmen away from 1,800 Latin American Nazi-serving firms, also arranged loans by which Latin Americans could buy out German interests. ¶ While Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs (1944-45), fought for a clause in the United Nations Charter far more vital than he knew; thinking primarily of Latin American relations, he enlisted the aid of Michigan's late, great Senator Arthur Vandenberg, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, in providing for the right...
...Supreme Symbol. The pervasive odor of human manure, the characteristic fragrance of Japan a decade ago, has all but disappeared. Today's farmers buy chemical fertilizers instead. In rice-rich Ichijo. almost all farmhouses now have tiled kitchens, running water and-as a supreme mark of gentility-neat, outdoor privies with trim red pillars...
This, said Secretary Anderson sternly, is not the way to protect the savings deposited with these institutions. Said he: "When the great institutional holders of the nation's savings do not buy Treasury securities, the Treasury must turn to commercial banks. This means increased bank credit, a larger money supply and new inflationary pressures. To the extent that inflation results, the customers of these savings institutions are among the chief victims...
...best test his desires to teach. "I strongly recommend this idea of a year or two teaching at a prep school before going to a college or university. For one thing it's economical: I saved enough in two years to finance my first year at grad school and buy a car, too. And best of all, you discover more of the true joy of teaching than you will at any college...