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Success of the campaign, however, according to manger Michael B. Rothenberg '49, rests with the faculty and a graduate students. "Returns are just starting to come in by mail from these sources," said Rothenberg, "and they will have to take an upsurge in the near future to put the drive over...
...free hand. Kennelly accepted. Ed Kelly, tired of fighting a losing game, capitulated. Puffing nervously on a cigaret, he strode into the Morrison Hotel the night before the formal announcement, to face the selection committee. Said he: "I haven't tried to be a dog in the manger. I am for you and I am with you. Let's nominate Kennelly and get through with...
...this shall be a sign unto you: ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger...
Thus British policy tends toward a dog-in-the-manger role. Instead of making BOAC efficient, it punishes U.S. airlines for their efficiency. Efforts to negotiate an Anglo-American air agreement have been blocked by Britain's insistence on rate regulation by fixing fares on the level at which the most efficient operator could make a profit. Pan Am said that this was exactly what it was doing...
...decades the 42,000 square miles of the Valley of the Tennessee were ill-faring land. Floods devastated the lowlands and rains eroded the deforested hills. There was little industry. The malaria-ridden people were as impoverished as the soil. Like Aesop's fabled dog in the manger, Tennessee's paunchy, vituperative Senator Kenneth McKellar championed the land and the people; he wanted no improvements without patronage. When the vast, experimental Tennessee Valley Authority was created in 1933 he set out to force the spoils system upon...