Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reversal voids Estes' eight-year sentence for inducing Texas farmers to buy non-existent ammonia-fertilizer tanks, but he will be retried (without TV). Meanwhile, he is serving a separate 15-year stretch in Leavenworth on a federal conviction for mail fraud and conspiracy...
...Congregational Church in California. Undiscouraged when his youthful charge was rearrested for stealing cars, Tolson persuaded six lay friends to help the boy when his second term was up. Now the ex-convict has a wife, three children, and a steady job. "I lent him $1,000 to help buy a home," Tolson says proudly, "and he paid me back within a year...
There have also been width problems. Harvard tried to buy the adjacent land for $100,000; but the owner, a college teacher and former Harvard M.A., refused to sell unless Harvard gave him an honorary Ph.D. "The owner," Babcock said, "refused to leave his house as long as the tree in front of it stood that tree. But the University may get the property soon. The tree died last summer...
...December 9, 1914, the Class of '15 collected funds to buy ambulances for the use of five foreign powers: England, Belgium, France, Austria, and Germany. On May 30, Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15 was killed in action while fighting with the Grenadier Guards of the British Army...
...cheered for a football team that lost to Yale and Princeton, among others. They supported the CRIMSON's crusade for the formation of an Ivy League to preserve amateurism in College football. Most of them favored the Presidential aspirations of the Governor of Kansas; others helped raise money to buy an ambulance for the Spanish Loyalists...