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...when Donham became dean, neither a strong faculty nor a leadership tradition existed. In fact, the school itself hardly existed. Scattered in every nook and cranny of the University, it had no money, a skeleton faculty, an inadequate curriculum, and an unrealistic approach to business education...
...promising is the Republican outlook in Idaho, where Senator Henry Dworshak, fresh from his sorry showing in the Army-McCarthy hearings, is being pressed by Glen Taylor, the Progressive Party's 1948 candidate for Vice President, who has yodeled his campaign message in the state's every nook and chasm...
...astonishing economic comeback. With a bulging treasury and credits piling up in every continent, pfennig-pinching Finance Minister Fritz Shäffer announced sweeping tax reductions that will enable Germans themselves to buy more of the Volkswagen, cameras and other good things that their factories are exporting to every nook & cranny of the Western world. A staunch free-enterpriser, Shäffer believes that a capitalist economy should be kind to capitalists. His tax cuts especially gave relief to 1) heavy industry (corporation taxes were reduced from 60% to 45%*) and 2) West Germany's crop of postwar millionaires...
...expected the Russians to agree to a German settlement. But there had been real hope for Austria. By the Moscow Declaration of 1943, Russia had agreed that Austria should be treated as a liberated country. After 374 discussions over seven years, "every conceivable nook and cranny," as Dulles pointed out. had been explored. All that remained to be done was to reach agreement on five disputed articles. Chancellor Julius Raab was willing and even eager to pledge Austria's neutrality. Foreign Minister Leopold Figl was sent to Berlin prepared to accept the heavy price demanded by the Russians...
...course that an unseen difficulty arose. It was no longer possible to chalk up examinations on the blackboard, and nothing but printed exams seemed ractical. So, in that year, Eliot bought himself a press and the services of a second-rate journeyman printer, installing them both in a nook of University Hall's basement. All was well, for a while, and Harvard was launched on a printing career. But within a year or two Eliot discovered that his printer was supplementing his wages by selling copies of the exams to students even before the proofs were delivered to the professors...