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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peak of 1946-47. His office is the channel for about ten million dollars a year in government payment for education and subsistence. Although his assistant, Miss Margaret Witt, handles nine-tenths of the routine red tape difficulties familiar to all veterans, there are enough left over to keep him busy six days a week. "Just when you think you've got everything caught up and running on schedule, the top blows off some new problem and before you know it the whole detail is fouled up again," he explains...
...balancing a budget determined by established educational policy is an immense one. Provost Buck has certainly done well to stay ahead of his competitors in the past three years, to keep his books balanced, to make what economies he could within the Faculty; he is correct in raising tuition now if failing to do so would hurt instruction. But he has assumed a very definite responsibility to make good on advising, on expanded scholarships, on reviving tutorial, and on drastically revising such College institutions as have fallen out of date in the last decade. He and the Faculty members involved...
...strike" by western cattlemen to keep their beef from market...
Marquand says he was forced to keep his nose to the Satevepost grindstone for years to keep his head above the household bills. His wife urged him to try a different vein-advice which he followed later, if not at the time. "She would say, 'Why don't you write something nice for your Uncle Ellery on the Atlantic Monthly?' She didn't realize that my Uncle Ellery would have given me a nice silver inkwell, or a hundred dollars, and that wouldn't pay the bills...
...troops in 1942 had a profound effect on the nationalist movement. Full of promises, the conquerors set up a puppet government of nationalist leaders. Collaborators soon found the promises worthless, but in 1945 they did not regret their move. The Japanese surrender caught British and Dutch troops unprepared. To keep order in the Islands, the Allies were forced to recognize existing Republican sovereignty in Java and Sumatra...