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Radcliffe has also received $300,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support post-doctoral research on women's issues. The money, a renewal of a 1978 grant of $340,000, will support the Murray Research Center and the Schlesinger Library...
...like sitting in a bath of ink"-and he insisted that reduced spending and a balanced budget would end the slump. "Nobody is actually starving," Hoover said. "The hobos, for example, are better fed than they have ever been." Other U.S. officials were equally astute. Said Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon in 1930: "I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism." (Joke of the day: Hoover asks Mellon, "Can you lend me a nickel to call a friend?" Mellon answers, "Here's a dime. Call all of them...
Regan, properly instructed by Reagan, went back to the books and dug out the economic history of Coolidge's White House years. Regan polished up some nuggets from Andrew Mellon, the Secretary of the Treasury of those exuberant days. One of them: "If the spirit of business adventure is killed, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world." That is the stuff to swell a supply-sider's heart...
...chose Harvard because we were selecting preeminent institutions, and Harvard qualifies on anybody's list," Furman said, adding that the foundation also tried to select institutions that have received relatively small grants from the Mellon Foundation, the major source of private funding for universities. Harvard is the only Ivy League school that received a MacArthur grant...
...Carnegie Mellon University...