Word: write
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairman of Harry Truman's Council of Economic Advisers. The CEA had been set up to keep the President informed as to the complex economy's ups & downs and in-betweens. On the CEA with Nourse were ardent New Dealer Keyserling, 41, who helped Senator Robert Wagner write the Wagner Act, and John D. Clark, an economic and political anomaly who was onetime vice president and director of Standard Oil of Indiana...
...note that you are going to Europe . . . While there, doubtless you will adjust the European situation. When you adjust it satisfactorily and return to your own country, I may write you again...
...callers at his suite in the Waldorf-Astoria. One night, he drove up to Columbia University; at this shrine of mass education (current enrollment: 29,200), President Dwight D. Eisenhower conferred an honorary doctorate of laws on the Cambridge graduate, some 90% of whose countrymen cannot read or write. As newsmen worked over Nehru in a klieg-lit, stifling hot little room, Eisenhower nervously chewed his mortarboard, muttered: "This is a terrible way to treat a friend." By the time the press was through with Columbia's newest doctor-who wore a black wool achkan under his academic gown...
...when he was in the State Legislature, Curley, and an unrelated Tom Curley took civil service exams for two constituents. It was common practice in those days for a ward boss to take such an exam in lieu of one of his following who couldn't read of write. But a clerk recognized the two Curleys and forthwith, the two were judged guilty in a spectacular trial and sent to serve 90 days in the Suffolk County (Charles Street) Jail...
Beethoven write very few sonatas for the piano and cello, probably because it is so difficult to coordinate the widely varying sounds of these instruments. But the sonatas nevertheless did succeed in mastering the difficulties of composition imposed by the two instruments...