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...fact, this charter was never recorded and its validity is doubtful because it was issued by only an acting governor without permission of either the home government or the provincial legislature. Orthodox Anglicans seized this issue of legality and were pressing for annulment of the charter when Harvardman Jonathon Belcher, Class of 1699, stepped in to save the embryo college from extinction...
BRITAIN'S only comparable case in recent memory is the Stanley-Belcher scandal of 1948. John Belcher, a Labor M.P. and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, was found to have accepted a gold cigarette case, a suit of clothes, unlimited hospitality, and a week's vacation at a seaside resort from one Sydney Stanley. In return, Belcher helped Stanley around the government, helped his friends get licenses for construction work on a resort hotel and helped quash prosecution of a Stanley client for alleged shady dealings in a gambling pool...
...story caused an angry and instant uproar. Press, public and politicians of both parties joined in the hue & cry. Belcher resigned from Parliament and has no prospect of a return to public life...
Honorable Mention: centers--Ryan, Dudley; Brynteson, Dunster; Belcher, Leverett; forwards--May, Lowell; Reynolds, Leverett; Gotshalk, Eliot; guards--Redman, Hoffman, Dudley; Walker, Raphael, Dunster; Barclay, Kirkland...
Fifth place finishers in the regular A League season, the Bunnies couldn't seem to find their shooting eyes. Dave Belcher, Leverett's tall center, played well below his usual level of play, scoring only nine points...