Word: badgering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Badger Case, involving Salt Lake City Broker-Dealer Richard C. Badger, who committed suicide in March 1951 after embezzling $648,000 from his customers. SEC examiners had found nothing wrong with his books, though he had filed false reports with the agency since...
Married. Horace Dwight Taft, 27, youngest son of Ohio's senior Senator, now a physics graduate student at the University of Chicago; and Mary Jane Badger, 22, whom he met while studying in Switzerland; in Washington...
...movie and calls on all Catholics to boycott the condemned item, the collective power of Catholicism is being used to threaten a publisher or producer or theater owner with economic ruin unless he withdraws from the market something a bishop dislikes ... In a smaller way, Catholic groups and organizations badger newspaper and magazine editors. Any mention of anything Catholic must be favorable or the heat...
...Dayton, Tenn. in 1925. As part of the team of big names and intellectuals who defended Schoolteacher Scopes and the theory of evolution, Dr. Potter and his wife lived at the "Monkey House," as defense headquarters was called. One of his jobs: advising Lawyer Clarence Darrow how to badger Fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan with Biblical quiddities, such as how the Garden of Eden's serpent got around before God condemned him to wriggling on his belly...
Theodore L. Badger, Instructor in Medicine, and Edward A. Gaensler, assistant in Maternal and Child Health, were given $10,000 to continue their work on the lungs and respiratory system...