Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Investigator Kaplan's agents uncovered the extortion ring. Butcher Manny Seligman, for one, explained how it worked. He had been summonsed for short weighing by an inspector from the Bureau of Weights and Measures, and he turned up as ordered at bureau headquarters. There, suave, mouse-browed Director Frederick J. Loughran and Inspector Bert Smith told him about a "new system." Seligman was simply to pay Loughran "a couple of thousand dollars" to kill the summons. When he protested, an inspector told him: "If you don't pay up, you will have to give 16 ounces...
Quiet but tense since the militia withdrew in August, Henderson is divided between the dogged strikers and the rest of the city-which just wishes the strike would go away. High School Principal Frederick R. Kesler believes "a lot of things have been said in this town that will take a long time to heal," worries that the strike may erect a permanent wall of hatred between children from the town and the mill villages. Scripture-quoting West Virginia-born Boyd Payton, 51, Textile Workers' director for the Carolinas, keeps his remarkably loyal Bible-belt flock together with reminders...
...drums, bringing them up to concert pitch. Shapely dancing girls added extra layers of cloth to the bustles that accentuate their sinuous movements. Throughout the green and rolling land last week, 1,500,000 Buganda tribesmen were getting ready to celebrate the 35th birthday of their Kabaka (King), Edward Frederick William David Mukabya Mutesa...
Chester J. Boulris '60 was presented the Frederick Crocker Award--unofficially the football team's most valuable player award--at the annual team dinner held last night at the Harvard Club of Boston. The trophy is given to the letterman who, in the opinion of his teammates, "possesses initiative, perseverance, courage, and selflessness...
...SYMPOSIUM ON EVOLUTION, marking the centenary of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. Darwin Recalled, Bernard J. Boelen, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University; Biology--Viruses and Evolution, Frederick C. Bawden, M.A.F.R.S., Rothamsted Experimental Station for botanical research, author...