Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Called the tribes of men together For a conference on wampum In the forest of New Hampshire, Came the prophets of the nations, Foremost in their craft and wisdom. . . . Keynes urged, "Be not slave to wampum, Throw away the truss of wampum, Start a fund for prudent lending, That all tribes of men may borrow, Each get credit from the other, Using anything for wampum, Sterling, beads or even fishbones." Morgenthau, the Chief of Wall Street, Tighter strapped the belt of wampum, "My world bank for reconstruction Must be on a wampum basis." So they reasoned as they wrestled, While...
Like the U.S. bankers, but for different reasons, some of the best financial brains at the conference-men from smaller countries which recognize that they have to play a secondary part-were not awestruck by the wisdom of the U.S. and British delegations. (Said one European, wise in the ways of international finance: "The British are too much like schoolteachers. And the Americans are too much like schoolboys. Sometimes I feel like raising my hand and asking to be excused...
Such persons, feeling that the French are being wickedly ungrateful for our aid and for the superior wisdom of Americans in French affairs, make no allowance for the four heartbreaking years of unwarranted rebuffs and slights endured by De Gaulle and his followers. They would make of France Resistant another quasi-Ally, like Italy, complete with AMG and ex-Fascist mayors converted from Fascism to Democracy since June 6. When the French punish such Vichyites as they can catch, the charge is made that the "Gaullists" are purging the "opposition" and intend to rivet a Gaullist dictatorship on France...
...Commitments. Californians accepted the finality of his decision. But they questioned its wisdom. The questioning spread-to the floor of the Convention hall and into the newspapers. There were reasons, quickly understood, for Warren's keeping the Governorship. It pays better than the Vice-Presidency ($10,000 plus $15,000 in perquisites, against $15,000 for the Vice-Presidency), and Warren has a family of six children to consider. If the Republicans lost, he would be nowhere; if they won, he would have the dull, gavel-rapping, Throttlebottom job that only a President's death makes important...
...Egyptian mythology with the religious teachings of the Hebrews. He pondered upon the comparative meaning of sin. Sin for the Egyptians was not conscious wrongdoing, but more akin to a want of foresight. "It meant folly, it meant clumsy dealing with God, it was something to jeer at. Whereas wisdom meant foresight and care for the future...