Word: drain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 went out for the CRIMSON in 1900, in the days when "The task was heavy, the drain on the candidate's thought and time exhausting. The candidates was everywhere; he was 'the arrow that flieth by day, and pestilence that walketh in darkness,'" according to W. R. Bowie, the managing editor at the time. F.D.R.'s competition opened in October, and he was finally elected in June after reporting that his uncle, Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt, would lecture in Lowell's Gov. 1 course...
...more changes, deletions, marginal notes, here and there ordered re-emphasis. The tenor of the message: hold-the-line fiscal management. On defense, the President wanted to stress the need to cut down on costly weapons duplication. On agriculture, the President hoped and expected that Congress would reduce the drain of crop-support programs. On foreign aid, the President wanted an increase in funds that was modest in terms of the need, e.g., a jump from $400 million to $700 million for the Development Loan Fund. Already the President had ordered a whole section of the message to be devoted...
...love with her. Nora Drake, psychiatric nurse, finally finished analyzing her boy friend and saw him head home to his ex-wife and family. All last week, soap operas were blowing their last bubbles on CBS; writers were winding up their plots, sending the venerable shows down the drain along with a clutch of other programs. Reason: CBS is trying to save what is left of its radio network by severe retrenchment. Says CBS Radio's President Arthur Hull Hayes: "Ever since 1954, we have been losing money at the rate of a few million dollars a year...
...array of troubles before De Gaulle is indeed sobering. The country is basically prosperous, but its economy is restrictive. Politically, the new Assembly, calling itself Gaullist, is considerably more rightist in outlook than the general himself. Above all, the four-year-old Algerian Moslem revolt continues to drain France of $2,400,000 a day, and prospects for a negotiated end to the fighting, once considered high, were badly dashed last October, when the rebels angrily considered De Gaulle's soldier-to-soldier, "flag-of-truce" offer a humiliating proposal...
...financial requirements by letting those who can afford it shoulder most of the burden. This "soak-the-rich" policy has long been Harvard's unofficial attitude toward the problem, and it seems foolish, just because of uniform, modern Quincy House, to let thirty years of hypocrisy go down the drain...