Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most important diplomat of the most powerful nation in the world. In his fat calfskin briefcase he carried the skeleton of the most ambitious economic foreign policy in history: the reconstruction of Western Europe. In 1947, U.S. diplomacy was big business, as big as the enormous wealth and prestige of the richest and most powerful nation on earth...
...city. He grew up and sold a patent medicine for ailing women, worked his way through a three-year law course in eight months, and ten years later ran for governor. He was the people's darling. He was going to make the rich share their wealth with the poor, and make every man a king. His name was Huey Pierce Long and the people adored and elected him. He built $200 million worth of highways, provided free textbooks for schoolchildren, lavished funds on Louisiana State University, went on to the U.S. Senate. He did the people some good...
...that he broke his ten-year rule of teetotalism to drink a toast in champagne with Russian friends. As the Government's special emissary to India, he failed to work out the terms of independence (mostly because he was not given elastic bargaining powers), but left behind a wealth of good will. Churchill made him Leader of the House of Commons, later Minister of Aircraft Production. At war's end, the Labor Party received the renegade into its ranks again. Clement Attlee made him president of the Board of Trade, and when storm clouds gathered last September, Minister...
...does not love, and sincerely devoted to his mistress. He never repents his deeds, or sees a need to, but he makes a futile attempt at good works by endowing, in his will, a charity hospital. This escape-hatch from hell is closed, however, when the ill-gained wealth is dissipated by executors, lawyers and heirs...
Today, despite its vast wealth, Harvard must plan carefully in order to stay out of the red. It is not easy for a University to cut expenses. More than fifty-five percent of last year's $25 million expenditure went into wages and the fixed salaries of permanent "Corporation appointees," while another twenty-five percent was eaten up by equipment and supply needs. The remainder went out to scholarships and prizes, retiring pensions, and that old accountants stand-by, "miscellaneous." Few major cuts can be made, if Harvard is to continue to provide its traditional facilities. The faltering tutorial system...