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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Pusey, in acknowledging the gift, called it "a magnificent gift and true expression of Mr. Loeb's wide and humane interests." Although the appointment of a University Professor is up to the president, it seems certain that the wishes of the faculty will be taken into account...
...other account, voiced by ex-boss Leighton behind his steel-gray, James Hall desk, was that Harry got just what everyone gets. "We've got no obligation, you know," he said...
...President's suggestions certainly go far toward removing the inequities of the present law. Not only does the President favor an over-all increase in immigrants from 154,000 to about 220,000, but he also would let unused quotas, from nations like England, Ireland, and Germany--which now account for two-thirds of the total quota--be distributed among nations that need higher allotments. Greece, for instance, now has a total quota of only 308, Turkey 225, and Japan 185. The President would also remove altogether from quotas the refugees who have entered under the special Refugee Relief...
...hopeless disrepair; its corners and closets were cluttered with the detritus of ages; rats and mice infested its secret corridors; and many of its rooms were unfurnished. To the Rev. Guy Eric Smith, a man of middle age newly ordained to the ministry, all this was of little account-a parish was a parish. But what the Rev. Mr. Smith did not know was that Borley Rectory was the haunt not only of mice and cobwebs but the headquarters as well of what seemed to be the busiest set of ghosts in all England...
From that time on, Borley Rectory's position as the No. 1 haunted house of the land went virtually unchallenged. Tenants came and went, but scarcely a year passed without some new and startling account of Borley's restless specters. Even the destruction of the old place by fire in 1939 failed to calm the ghosts who were seen by some disporting themselves in the flames. If there were any skeptics left, Price's own volumes, The Most Haunted House in England and The End of Borley Rectory, soon dispelled them. Even Sir Ernest Jelf, Senior Master...