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Perhaps never again will there be anything quite like the cool authority of an obiter dictum from Emily Post. On the proper dress of a lady's maid: "She never wears a cap, and bobbed hair would be most unsuitable." On the House with Limited Service: "The fact that you live in a house with two servants, or very well with only one, need not imply that your house lacks charm or even distinction . . ." But the world that turned on such fine points as How to Pay a Visit to a Lady Who Has No Maid, and The Manner...
...hypothetical William James would have to be barred from lecturing in the new William James Behavioral Sciences building if the University were to follow the spirit of the CRIMSON'S dictum that "Leary's attitude toward mind disqualifies him from membership in a university...
...glared at the 54.7% of the autotruck market captured by G.M. (it already has seven antitrust suits pending against G.M.) and the United Auto Workers chided the corporation for not lowering car prices, G.M.'s management took its history making in stride, devoted as professional managers to the dictum once voiced by another great manager, General Electric's Philip Reed: "Profits are a measure of effective, efficient operation and should be worn as a badge of accomplishment and of honor...
...place on the prestigious Ways and Means Committee. But Mills reached the goal in a mere four years. Speaker Sam Rayburn, impressed with Mills's brains and diligence, gave him a push. And the committee's chairman, North Carolina's Robert ("Muley") Doughton, author of the dictum that the objective of tax policy is to "get the most feathers with the fewest squawks from the goose," soon found studious Congressman Mills a valuable man to have around...
...happenstance of foreign affairs, changed the mood. The Administration launched a drive, at first greeted with great suspicion, to regain business confidence. It began paying attention to one of the lesser-known dicta of British Economist John Maynard Keynes, an intellectual godfather of the New Deal. The Keynes' dictum: "Short of going over to Communism, there is no possible means of curing unemployment except by restoring to employers a proper margin of profit...