Word: freed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countries to fill political vacuums," Rupert Emerson, professor of Government, told alumni assembled in Fogg Museum. Along with Robert Bowie, director of the Center for International Studies, and Edward S. Mason, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Emerson noted the difficulties faced by the 750 million people in nations freed from colonialism since World...
...youth. Ward roamed the waterfronts in China, prospected for gold in Alaska, ended up in Leavenworth in 1919 on a narcotics conviction. His cellmate turned out to be H. H. Bigelow. then the penny-pinching president of Brown & Bigelow, in prison for income tax evasion. After both were freed, Bigelow offered Ward a job. helped him rise through the ranks of Brown & Bigelow. Ward took over the company in 1933, saw sales of the firm's advertising specialty items (notably calendars) climb to $50 million in 1958. Convinced that rehabilitation must take place outside prison, outgoing, kindly Charlie Ward...
...Washington, Griswold persuaded the New Dealers to accept the "conduit theory" of taxation, which looked on the funds as a "conduit" for investors, freed the funds from paying federal tax so long as they distributed their capital gains and at least 90% of their dividend income to shareholders. Since the funds pay out all their earnings, this in effect frees them from paying taxes. In return for this concession, Griswold and the funds agreed to back other business tax proposals that President Roosevelt wanted. Griswold also helped draft the regulatory laws for the industry that came...
...cost of parochial education, the merits of which may be freely granted, but one of the results of which may well be the destruction of the public school system . . . Parents whose loyalty to their church leads them to send their children to parochial schools are not on that account freed from the obligation to support the public schools...
...criticism, scornful of our values, yet forever concerned with what we think of them. Children we can tolerate; child-men and child-women we generally lock up. Unfortunately, Wyeth and Steiner broke loose; but Zane seems unable to know what to do with the fools he has freed...