Word: wholely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Representative T. Fred Cline introduced a bill in the Missouri House of Representativesauthorizing up to $15,000 to purchase the house as a shrine. Republican Floor Leader William Cruce promptly pointed out that it was "a decrepit old house," and the whole property was assessed at only $600. Protested Cline: "There is a sentimental value. A lady buys antiques at 40 to 50 times their value because there is a sentimental value...
...reward for political labors: $10,000 a year, use of a limousine, the pleasure of seeing her signature* on all U.S. folding money. ¶Received a new bow tie from a caller, Michigan's new Democratic governor, G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, who had been given a whole box of them. The onetime haberdasher whipped off his four-in-hand, skillfully knotted the bow tie without looking in a mirror...
Jaakko reserves his special praise for Bannister. "Why, that mile here between Bannister and George Wade of Yale will be one of the best of the whole intercollegiate season," he predicted yesterday. "Wade is the kind of a runner who needs to be pushed, and I think both of them will go under 4:10, so you can see what a race it should...
Other Rockefeller family gifts to Harvard during the last half century include funds for the Medical School, Divinity School, Fogg Art Museum, Germanic Museum, and Law School, as well as the University as a whole...
Unfortunately, although the "20" knew education and knew the clashing ideologies of the world today, they did not know newspapers, or, more fundamentally, what is considered newsworthy. Thus the whole statement, at least in its first fruits, completely backfired. Moreover, this backfire goes far deeper than the average newspaper reader; it goes down to the average educator, to the school board member in Green Bay, Wisconsin. This school board member will probably never read the complete statement of the "20." From his newspaper, however, he has gathered that top educators believe in tossing out the "Reds"--"Reds" exactly...