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...would be a grave policy error to support that type of program . . . We will continue, within the limits that the national budget will permit, with construction of such projects as are economically feasible and fall within the proper category of federal projects. [But] we will encourage to the utmost extent possible the construction and management of facilities by the states, municipalities, public agencies and private enterprise...
...utmost scorn for "intellectual officers" who try to direct battles from an armchair. "The command of men . . . requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive and unrelenting will." One of his pet peeves was his own quartermaster corps. Quartermasters, he said, "tend to work by theory and base all their calculations on precedent, being satisfied if their performance comes up to standard . . . [They] complain at every difficulty, instead of ... using their powers of improvisation, which indeed are frequently...
Nationalist China's delegate, quite relieved, said: "I am authorized by my government to state . . . that we are willing to give the U.N. the utmost cooperation in achieving that objective." Burma thanked the Assembly "for its moral backing." The Mexican resolution carried unanimously, 59 to 0 (China abstaining). The U.S. and Russia, who rarely agree on anything at U.N., voted...
...Museum, Adenauer referred to the University as "the Oxford of America" and said, "American universities have played a leading part in putting Europe back on its feet after the terrible ordeal of the second World War. The helping hand you have lent us has been, and still is, of utmost value...
Which means that in The Private Dining Room, Nash does his utmost to portray life with the mingled tolerance and grouchiness that follow an obligatory loosening of the belt. He finds for example, that there is very little satisfaction in talking with the younger generation...