Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fred Clark Scribner, 49, was nominated by President Eisenhower to be Under Secretary of the Treasury for general administration, filling a post that has been vacant since H. Chapman Rose left in early 1956. Born in Bath, Me., Scribner was educated at Dartmouth ('30) and Harvard Law School ('33); he first practiced law in Portland, later entered politics (national G.O.P. committeeman 1948-56) and served as vice president of Maine's Bates Manufacturing Co. until 1955, when he went to Washington as general counsel of the Treasury. Last February he was named one of four assistant secretaries...
...announce that Bonaparte had won the battle of Marengo, now cries: "Our tanks were fired upon!" Tosca (Soprano Beverly Sills) hears the screams of her lover, who is being tortured offstage, over the intercom. (Scarpia: "Let's turn up the sound!") Having killed Comrade Scarpia (Baritone William Chapman), Tosca hopes to spring her lover from jail and cries: "Once we are at the airport . . . we'll be free." In the end, instead of hurling herself off the battlements of Castel Sant' Angelo, Tosca stabs herself...
...name hit the sawdusty scandal trail when investigators for Tennessee Senator Albert Gore's public-roads subcommittee began to check over a growing woodpile of corruption in Indiana's road-building program. The story, as Gore developed it in Washington hearings last week: Carpenters' Treasurer Frank Chapman, 52, borrowed $20,000 from an Indianapolis bank on his own and Hutcheson's signatures, bought up nine pieces of Indiana right-of-way land for $22,500, sold it all within 30 days to the state for $101,000. Furthermore, Brotherhood Vice President O. William Blaier, 69, bought...
...apology to Barbara, eight legislators regretted that some of their colleagues "have lost their sense of values, are more interested in personal advancement and the applause of the folks back home than they are in Christian principles of right and wrong." An effigy bearing the names of Sadler and Chapman dangled on the campus; another hung from the rotunda of the Capitol. Eighty student members of the Young Republicans and Young Democrats adopted a resolution condemning the university's action as a "flagrant" violation of the "principle of an equal chance for everyone...
...bona fide students should be given an equal opportunity to participate in campus activities." The presidents of the two leading service organizations, the Cowboys and the Silver Spurs, recommended that students boycott the opera. "We wonder," said the presidents, "if, in order to qualify as one of Representative Chapman's 'loyal Texans,' we must abandon our religious heritage as Christians and Jews, and our political heritage as Americans." Meanwhile, angry letters flooded the student Daily Texan. One alumnus wrote that he was "deeply ashamed." Said another reader: "It makes me sick to my stomach...