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...Lieutenant Governor Gaspar Bacon, Edgar Rickard, business associate of Herbert Hoover, Arkansas' Harvey Couch, now on R. F. C., Connecticut's G. O. P. Boss John Henry Roraback. The only "friend" revealed as having turned down a Morgan offer on ethical grounds was Board Chairman Edward Grant Buckland of New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Partner Whitney made a spirited defense of his firm's practice on the ground that its beneficiaries were willing and financially able to risk possible losses, did not have to borrow to buy, were not likely to dump their holdings...
...Calcutta Miss Santi Ghose and Miss Sunity Chowdhuri, convicted of fatally filling District Magistrate Charles Geoffrey Buckland Stevens full of bullets (TIME, Dec. 28), appeared in court for their sentences. In bright colored saris, with flowers in their hair, they listened unmoved as they were sentenced to transportation for life from Bengal Presidency. Said they lightly: "It is better to die than live in a horse's stable...
Murder of several Britishers in Bengal was certain from the moment that Viceroy the Earl of Willingdon issued his ordinance suppressing the right of free speech and many another right (TIME, Dec. 14).* Last week fate made that innocent and worthy bureaucrat Charles Geoffrey Buckland Stevens, District Magistrate of Comilla, the first victim of fierce Bengalese reprisal...
Honorary degrees were awarded to two foreign legal scholars by the Harvard Law School. The recipients of these honorary doctorships of law were William W. Buckland, president of Caius and Gonville colleges, Cambridge, England, Regius professor of Civil Law at Cambridge University and one of the outstanding authorities of the world on Roman Law, and Perey H. Winfield. Rouse Professor of English Law at Cambridge...
Citizen Calvin Coolidge accompanied by Citizeness Coolidge quietly drove from the Inauguration ceremonies at the Capitol to the Union Station a few blocks away. At the station they entered the private car of Edward G. Buckland, Vice President of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., an old friend. Frank W. Stearns, who six years ago rode to Washington with the then new President, likewise joined the party. So did Dr. James F. Coupal, who had been White House physician. At 2:35 the Montrealer steamed out of the station to return to Massachusetts its greatest citizens...