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...recent press conference President Eisenhower answered a question on the re-proposal of the Bricker Amendment by saying that his opposition to any weakening of presidential treaty-making powers had not changed "one iota." A few days later Secretary of State Dulles strongly attacked the bill; and it now seems effectively pigeon-holed in Senate Committee...
...athletic director said he had sent Jordan a letter in which he wanted to make it clear that Cornell was not trying "to detract one iota from Harvard's performance on Saturday. Harvard outplayed us and deserved...
...spite of rising costs, he scarcely added one iota to the annual school assessment. He kept the student-teacher ratio at 19 to 1, bought $60,000 worth of new shop equipment in 1949, even paid up a $23,000 bonded debt six years before it was due. How did he manage? The school board never bothered to ask. It was so thoroughly delighted with $6,800-a-year Superintendent Smith that this year it voted him a $1,200 raise...
...Harvard Alumni Schools Committee put it, the problem of admissions policy is One of the most vital that faces the College today. Each year we see wonderful boys of Harvard calibre go elsewhere. If we don't keep selling, we'll soon be left behind. To let up one iota in this fiercely competitive field would insure the same results as an established firm deciding it was not necessary to advertise...
...hard choice. When asked about federal aid to higher education in 1948, Columbia's Eisenhower said: "So that no one will misunderstand where an old soldier stands on that question-I will have no federal money in higher education as long as there is one single iota of federal control coming with it ... The Federal Government has no right to take tax money out of our pockets and give it back...