Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farewell radio-TV speech to the nation, Harry Truman reverted briefly to the humility of his early days in office. Said he: "When Franklin Roosevelt died, I felt there must be a million men better qualified than I to take up the presidential task. But the work was mine to do, and I had to do it. I have tried to give it everything that was in me." Characteristically, he also soared to new heights of self-assertion in an implied comparison of his own foreign policy and that of F.D.R. Sketching in the background of the U.S. decision...
...says, "you put your heart and soul into a client, then you go through it again with the next client. All you could build in the law business was a personal reputation I have never been particularly interested in merely building a personal reputation. In business you develop a mine or a plant, or an entire industry. I was more interested in building something you could see or touch...
...terms of business, Ungava may yet be a gold mine. In terms of national security, it offers an invaluable new ore source for the U.S. steel industry, which uses 121 million tons of iron ore a year...
...well within the limit set by the Student Council. If the disturbed student had only come to me instead of jumping to conclusions, I would have been glad to explain to him, as I did to many others, how I got the cards printed. A friend of mine know where he could get the engraving made for $1.50, apparently the normal price for such a small job if you go to a printer who can run it on with some other material of his own. If having a friend is a crime I plead guilty. The 'Crimson Press charged...
...extent that any language of mine on the Kansas article may have created any misunderstanding about my ideas this letter will I hope, career it. Zechariah Chafee, Jr. University Professor