Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight-member Army court pronounced sentence on Colonel Jack W. Durant for his part in the crime. The sentence: 15 years at hard labor, dismissal from the service. Already serving prison terms for the same offense are Durant's ex-WAC captain wife, Kathleen (five years); and Major David F. Watson (three years...
...Loyal Opposition had a few gasps of protest left in it before Labor's guillotine (TIME, March 17) chopped off the usual procedure of full discussion in the Mother of Parliaments. Tory Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe used the last few seconds before the deadline to tick off a scathing objection to "a sorry parody of legislative efforts." Then the chopper fell. Grey-wigged Speaker Colonel Clifton Brown cut in; there would be no further debate. The Government's 92 amendments would never even be discussed...
Attending the meeting for the HLU, one of the main collegiate groups backing the formation of SDA, are Robert A. Levine '50, Richard M. Hays '49, and David M. Heer...
...David Kligler '47 was elected Treasurer of the organization while Robert A. Levine '50 will head the Political Action Committee and Geoffrey W. White '48, the Harvard Affairs Committee. All won contested elections. White's election was the only one which ran along the lines of the recent HLU split on whether liberals can work with Communists...
...Then David R. Hardman, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education, spoke for the Government: "I believe it to be a method of keeping discipline which is completely out of date. . . . It is bad for the child and it is very bad for the adult who administers it. [But] there is also the Ministry point of view.. In saying that I do not imply that officials are sadists, eager to continue the use of caning and flogging. I merely say that, as a Ministry, it is important to move with public opinion. We do not advocate...