Word: moynihan
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President Conant has allocated $5000 from University funds to fight the menace of forest fires in Petersham, site of the Harvard Forest, and to curtail them if they develop. This offer has been given to Patrick J. Moynihan, chairman of the Massachusetts emergency committee, by Ward Shepard '10, Director of the Forest and head of the special committee to guard against forest fires...
...trial hearings were first introduced in the U. S. in 1932 by Circuit Court Judge Joseph A. Moynihan of Michigan...
Died, Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, First Baron Moynihan of Leeds, 70, famed British surgeon; of shock following the death of his wife; in Leeds, England. International authority on cancer. Lord Moynihan twice achieved notoriety: in 1929 when he stated that German aviators dropped plague bacilli bombs on British forces during the War, again in 1935 when he organized the Voluntary Euthanasia Legalization Society in a crusade to legalize "mercy killings" of incurable patients by their physicians. Offered the honor of burying him in Westminster Abbey, Lord Moynihan's family refused, buried him near his wife in Leeds...
Emotional Britons have been excited about "mercy killing" since the pardon acquittal of Mother May Brownhill for poisoning and asphyxiating her imbecile son Dennis (TIME, March 11). Lord Moynihan of the Royal College of Surgeons is pushing the "Right to Die" movement, backed by the Earl of Listowel and Lord Denman, onetime Governor General of Australia. Last week Lord Moynihan deprecated the Mail story as a cheap advertisement, said his group would put his proposition sensibly to the British public in December, try to get a permissive bill through Parliament...
...Wrote Lord Moynihan, onetime president of the Royal College of Surgeons, to Dr. Sheehan: ". . . How excellent a showman...