Word: erasmus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most important finding of the commission, headed by Supreme Court Justice Rudolph Erasmus, was that Vorster was fully aware of a covert operation by his former Minister of Information, Cornelius Mulder, to spend tens of millions of dollars in an illegal and secret effort to influence the news media. Retracting its own preliminary report that had exonerated Vorster, the commission concluded that he had lied in sworn testimony concerning his role in the whole affair. One witness testified that he had once asked Vorster whether the government itself was being blackmailed by Eschel Rhoodie, one of Mulder...
...Erasmus commission also provided a fascinating summary of what happened to the Muldergate millions. The commission charged that some $500,000 kept bobbing up in various bank accounts belonging to Rhoodie and two of his brothers; Rhoodie's salary as a senior civil servant never exceeded $1,350 a month. The commission also declared that $19 million in public funds went to L. Van Zyl Alberts, the publisher of a newspaper and a magazine that were, in reality, secretly funded government publications; the report implies that the publisher's use of the money points "to theft and fraud...
From Ptahhotep to Castiglione to Erasmus to Emily Post, the manners manual has been a permanent fixture of practical...
David Herlihy, professor of History, said yesterday Gilmore gave humanism a new perspective by examining its relationship to Roman law. Gilmore was also an authority on Erasmus, Herlihy added...
Gilmore was teaching a freshman seminar on Erasmus this semester, and had been appointed to serve as a visiting professor in Renaissance Studies at Smith College this spring...