Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atheneum is now run by one thousand and forty-nine shareholders who buy their shares on the stock market. Ranging between one hundred and seventy-five and nine hundred dollars, the price of shares goes up and down with the general trend of the market. Despite the rather forbidding notice on the door restricting the use of the library to shareholders, Walter Muir Whitehill, President of the Atheneum's Trustees and Senior Tutor of Lowell House, explains that the "barriers are raised only high enough to keep out the nuisances...
...FIRST THOUSAND DAYS, Vol. I (738 pp.)-Simon & Schuster...
...spirited bidding. The ultimate buyers, Simon & Schuster, announced the event in tones which indicated they had accomplished a major coup. The diary is to be a massive affair, even after editing, but the publishers have run off two pre-publication printings (25,000) of Volume I, The First Thousand Days, and are at least outwardly confident that the work will be received with increasing fervor as succeeding volumes follow it to the bookstores...
...play, and the diary faithfully reports his intimate relationship with the President. But the Ickes of the caustic quotes and belligerent campaign speeches emerges only occasionally; like most diarists, the author was simply writing a detailed and essentially formless account of his daily life, and many of The First Thousand Days will be as full of drudgery for the reader as they were for the author...
Ickes went faithfully back to work and campaigned ferociously for F.D.R. in 1936. The First Thousand Days ends with a triumphant report of Roosevelt's victory, and the happy notation that F.D.R. seemed about ready to "move" against the anti-New Deal oldsters on the Supreme Court-a fight in which "I hope to be able to take part." With an air of conscious righteousness, he records a piece of White House scuttlebutt: F.D.R. is about to sack more than half his Cabinet,* but will reappoint Honest Harold...