Word: blackmers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Henry Myron Blackmer, 92, elusive Teapot Dome swindler, an oil-rich dandy nicknamed ''Darling of the Gods" for his lavish sprees during the West's reckless frontier era; in Geneva, Switzerland. Blackmer fled to France in 1924 to avoid questioning in the Harding Administration oil scandal and fought off all U.S. extradition efforts, but after 25 years in self-exile, by then a half-blind octogenarian without a country, he paid up $4,000,000 in back taxes, returned to face federal trial, where he was fined another $20,000 for income-tax evasion and then...
...which he was appointed Dean at the age of 34, Bundy began to demonstrate this combination of effective action and on-the-record silence. The year before (1953), as an associate professor of Government, he had been the University's representative on the six-institution committee that produced the Blackmer report recommending advancing qualified incoming students beyond Freshman courses and perhaps beyond the Freshman year itself into Sophomore Standing...