Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 1, 1950 be matched by an equal amount in gifts or pledges toward the School's $20,000,000 expansion program. "It's a real test for us," one official put it recently. "We feel we've got something that helps American business, and now in our drive for funds we'll see if business really thinks we're worth while...
...wasn't until March 20, 1924 that the fund drive Dean Donham called for got underway. However, under the late William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts, the campaign was unexpectedly concluded in little more than a month when the late George F. Baker, chairman of the First National Bank of New York, wrote the University offering $5,000,000 if he could "have the privilege of building the whole school...
Although the present picture in power is one of a mixed economy, it is hard to tell if it can remain mixed. The rapidly expanding public sphere has at its disposal all the weapons of large monopoly and can drive out private companies whenever they compete. Some say that this is good, for public power is always cheap. Others say that this cheapness is a farce and the people will not notice it until it is too late. The former favor unrestricted increase in public power operations. The latter propose a limitation on federal projects so that the areas...
Phillip Murray especially gets what seems unfair treatment. The man who led the organizing drive of the steel industry, who got U. S. Steel to sign a contract without a strike in 1937, who pushed his organizers through the tough "Little Steel" campaigns cannot be dismissed as a Lewis stooge without considerable evidence. Mr. Alinsky fails to point out that Murray may have been far more representative of the sentiments of labor than was Lewis when Murray took over the CIO, and that he certainly has followed since then a policy more sensitive to the needs and desires...