Word: freeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, an American Legionary calling socially on a friend in a Louisville bank, saw on his desk a canceled check from the State Bank of the U.S.S.R. payable to Dr. Ellis Freeman, professor of psychology at the University of Louisville. The Legionary sidled off to a corner in the bank, scribbled down what he had observed, showed it to Legion superiors who quickly published the charge that Professor Freeman "has received and cashed a check for $172.41, the equivalent of 199.5 rubles, from the State Bank of the U.S.S.R. at Moscow; that Professor Freeman has been soliciting subscriptions...
Cross-examination waxed so heated that spectators left their seats, circled the defense attorney and the plaintiff as questions disclosed that the check was a routine interest payment on $9,998 of Soviet bonds which Dr. Freeman had purchased for his mother's estate; that Dr. Freeman had been Boston-born Abram Ellis Friedman until he changed his name in 1923 "because I thought it stood as a handicap".; that Dr. Freeman believed "to talk about God, you must first create an image, and then talk about the image you have created"; that Dr. Freeman in his book Social...
...trial's end Judge Hubbard directed a verdict for the defendants. His ruling was a warning to other Kentucky public educators: "As a teacher in a municipal university supported by public taxes, Dr. Freeman has no privacy to be molested. . . . These gentlemen of the American Legion did nothing that any citizen doesn't have the right to do; they inquired into the character and record of a teacher and the things he taught our young people. They are to be commended...
...schooner, the Gypsum Queen, sank off the Irish Coast during a storm. The crew took to boats, were picked up by a freighter without loss of life. Fifteen years later the owner and captain, Freeman Hatfield of Nova Scotia, bobbed up with the story that the Gypsum Queen had been torpedoed by a German submarine. He claimed indemnity and in 1931 finally got from the Canadian Government $71,276,72. Year later Captain Hatfield abandoned the sea, went to the U. S.. opened a small chicken farm in Candia, N. H. An old seafaring friend of his lived there...
...right foot" and the various "lovers", "lunatics" and "mad ladies" bid fair to intimate that the play will be grotesque as well as giantesque. Outstanding among the cast will be Alice Plimpton, Dorothy Wright, Martha Bird and Joan Jacoby of Vincent Club and Junior League affiliations; Peggy Eastell, Priscilla Freeman, and Barbara Logan from Erskine; Desiree Rogers, newly debbed, Jean Halliday from Beaver Country Day, Peggy Carter and Leslie Blake...