Word: sums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local government than he once envisaged; he would strictly limit the power of the Federal Government. He puts heavy emphasis on re-establishing the strength and vitality of state government, an idea stressed in his Godkin lectures at Harvard on "The Future of Federalism" that he increasingly uses to sum up his political philosophy...
...grudging marriage of convenience proved a dismal flop. By rights, the hyphenated offspring should have had a circulation roughly equal to the sum of its parts (241,965). Instead, circulation dived to 191,143. By rights, a single evening paper, without competition, should have gained ads. Instead, in 1960, the News-Call Bulletin's linage fell 6% from igGo's figures. By rights, the combined operation should have reduced the combined deficit...
...always have to guess; the canny Corporation which has the job of awarding the honoraries ("increasing the sum of human happiness," President Lowell called it, pithily) isn't telling, and even their wives and daughters don't know. But there are certainties: Truman; Adlai Stevenson, who for the first time in quite a while is not too controversial; Dean Rusk--or more likely Robert McNamara, who used to teach at the Business School...
...market and netted $3,000,000 for 1952's Limelight, not counting U.S. royalties. Royalties roll in steadily from his old films, most of which he owns outright. Like many foreign stars living in Switzerland, he pays the Swiss government a flat and fairly nominal yearly sum, and no additional income taxes. He has never lost his penny-conscious regard for money. In fact, although he lives in a country twice as thrifty as Scotland, he is celebrated locally as the biggest tightwad in the canton...
...founded the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, introduced comic strips and sensational headlines (LOVE AND CIGARETTES CRAZED HIM) in his New York World, and willed $2.000,000 to Columbia University. All but $500,000 of the bequest was earmarked for the establishment of a journalism school. Pulitzer reserved the smaller sum for the annual prize contest* that bears his name...