Word: wholely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Business School Professor of Finance, Dan T. Smith '33, believed business will strongly oppose government subsidies in the steel industry as suggested by Truman. Smith declared that, "on the whole the President's program includes many things which would be socially desirable. The question is can be nation afford it with the financial burdens already...
...President's request for changes in the Taft-Harley Act is on the whole sound legislation, according to Benjamin M. Selekman, Kirstein Professor of Labor Relations at the Business School. The major need in labor relations today is a law to prevent strikes on a national scale in vital-industries, Selekman said...
...Fishy Sound. Dieckmann had a hunch that Diderot had never really destroyed the manuscript of his great philosophical dialogue, D'Alembert's Dream, though one contemporary declared that Diderot had burned it and another said he had torn it up. "The whole thing sounded fishy to me," says Dieckmann...
...Diderot manuscript was still in existence somewhere. One day a scholar casually remarked that he thought he might have seen the Dream while going through the family papers of a certain Baron Jacques Le Vavasseur, Diderot's direct descendant. Apparently, Diderot's daughter had passed on a whole batch of papers to her descendants. The family had let only two untrained amateurs take a look: it thought the less said about Diderot's escapades and radical ideas the better. Dieckmann got only a curt refusal when he wrote the baron...
...massive and radical trilogy, U.S.A., as a powerful plea for America's underprivileged. Written at a time when social novelists were likely to have more anger than talent, U.S.A. was a major literary achievement. Perhaps for the first time, an American novelist chose society as a whole as his central figure and used individual characters as mere illustrations for his thesis that America had been skidding downhill, socially and morally, since World...