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...letter to McCarthy said, according to Shanks, "We are inviting you as a major national figure representing one point of view, to share the same platform with the man who has done his utmost to deprecate your efforts and accomplishments through his won power and the power of those who follow his lead--Harry S. Truman...
...reproductions present mankind for the first time with a real view of the whole world's art. In reproductions, he writes, "miniatures, frescoes, stained glass, tapestries, Scythian plaques, pictures, Greek vase paintings, 'details' and even statuary . . . have lost their properties as objects; but . . . gained something: the utmost significance as to style that they can possibly acquire...
...with the Monetary Fund. On April 30, White's last day at the Treasury, President Truman wrote White accepting the resignation "with regret," saying: ". . . You will have increased opportunity for the exercise of your wide knowledge and expertness in a field which is of utmost importance to world peace and security . . . In your new position, you will add distinction to your already distinguished career...
...brightest young graduate researchers at Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in the mid-20s were Fritz Albert Lipmann and Hans Adolf Krebs. Both took their work in biochemistry with utmost seriousness, but they never discussed the possibility of future fame. They would have been even less likely to do so if they had been able to foresee the course of German politics. Both were Jews...
...stoned before the close of a certain Day of Atonement which fell on a Sabbath... In the staintes signed by the communities of Catalonia and Valencia September 25, 1354, the extermination of informers was made a public duty, in the accomplishment of which everyone was required to render his utmost assistance... [And later] when one was convicted of informing, he was branded on the forehead with a red not iron.... In Posen a Jewish informer is said to have been sentenced to death in accordance with the verdict of a Jewish court, so also as the last decades...