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Eggs & Numbers. Morgenthau needed all the presidential support he could muster. During the '30s, the Administration undertook intricate monetary manipulations, initially to induce reflation at home and later to stabilize the dollar. By reducing the gold content of U.S. currency, Roosevelt and Morgenthau hoped to raise domestic-commodity prices. They bought gold both at home and abroad, gradually increasing the dollar price while seeking to outwit gold speculators...
Altman is quite explicit. He says that there can be no real social and intellectual diversity at Princeton until: "1)there is a decent proportion of women students on campus and 2) the administration decides to muster up its courage and to spend a good deal of money on imaginative solutions to Princeton's social problems. There is no reason to believe that any such changes are in the works. The nation that students are going to come up with the answers to these problems in their spare time is at best an unrealistic expectation, and at worst, a surrender...
Theirs was an odd marriage. While Harold was going everywhere-meeting here with Duff Cooper, there with Lord Beaverbrook, growling at Churchill for failing to muster sufficient opposition to Hitler-Vita remained secluded at Sissinghurst, the Tudor castle they had bought in Kent. She was a strangely masculine woman who wore breeches and gaiters in winter and linen slacks in summer, and who often said that her one enduring regret was that she was not born a boy. Still, Vita was enchantingly feminine where Harold was concerned. Her letters to him were filled with tenderness, as were...
About three minutes later, Royer and Beller unleashed for 16 points, while the Amherst team could muster only three. After this explosion, Harvard held an insurmountable 46-25 margin. Two goals for the Crimson, and one for Amherst closed the half...
...only way to get a new Chancellor was for one of the parties to nominate a candidate and then have the strength to vote him into office. Trouble was, neither the Christian Democrats with 245 seats or the Social Democrats with 202 seats alone could muster the majority required by the constitution to install a Chancellor. While the Christian Democrats quarreled over whom they should nominate, the Social Democrats and Free Democrats began negotiating to form a coalition of their own to end the Christian Democrats' 17 years of uninterrupted rule. Desperate for a solution, Erhard's party decided...