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...that was accomplished on Tuesday was that Webster composed a letter to Dr. Parkman, requesting him to come to the Medical School at 1:30 p.m. on Friday. When he finished the letter, he gave it to the janitor of the building, Ephraim Littlefield, and asked Littlefield to deliver it to Parkman's house. The janitor had heard Parkman's conversation with Webster in the lab the afternoon before, and knew of the enmity between the two. He gave the letter to a small boy to deliver...
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Middlesex County District Attorney's office said that his office would "investigate the situation." At the same time the District Attorney himself, Ephraim Martin, pointed out that the city could employ anyone it wished. But, he added, "my job is to investigate and indict, if possible, persons violating the criminal laws, and gambling is a crime in this State...
...sedition laws. The Nelson decision found that a state act such as the 1919 "Prohibition of Anarchy Law," under which Struik was indicted, was clearly contravened by Congressional action in the field--specifically, the Smith Act, the Internal Security Act, and the Communist Control Act. The decision, according to Ephraim Martin, the Middlesex Country District Attorney prosecuting Struik, "indicates an intent on the part of Congress to occupy exclusively the field of sedition, at least where the offense charged is a Federal crime...
Pusey spoke tonight at a special convocation at Williams College in observance of the 200th anniversary of the death of Col. Ephraim Williams, the founder of the school. He also received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from James P. Baxter, president of Williams...
...seven brothers of the title are the seven redheaded Pontipee boys-Adam, Benjamin, Caleb, Daniel, Ephraim, Frank and Gideon-who live all alone in their potato patch and wish they didn't. When Adam (Howard Keel), the eldest, gets himself a wife (Jane Powell) by singing one of those rare ballads (When You're in Love) with love in the music as well as in the words, the other brothers celebrate their single cussedness by yowling a funeral Lament (for a lonesome polecat) that should fracture even the toughest audience...