Word: hammond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Private Travis Hammond, a good-looking, curly-haired U.S. soldier from Keltys, Tex., was accused of raping a pretty, 16-year-old English shopgirl. This was the first test of the four-day-old U.S.A. Visiting Forces Bill rushed through Parliament under uneasy protest and with grave doubts in both the U.S. and Britain. The bill removed from British courts the power to handle criminal charges against U.S. soldiers. Last week Britons watched to see how a U.S. court would act-and approved in practice what they disliked in theory...
...north-county rural chamber, amid frowning portraits of side-whiskered yeoman justices, eleven U.S. officers sat in judgment. Private Hammond testified nervously, lolling back cross-legged in an upholstered chair. He and the girl agreed they had picked each other up, had drunk beers and wine in pubs, had sought the privacy of a bomb shelter together, had kissed. The girl insisted she had screamed, slapped, scratched. But she admitted that when it was over she had wiped his face with his handkerchief...
...would have meant death or life imprisonment. This is more severe than British sentences, generally, which provide for penal servitude for life, or not less than three years, or imprisonment for not more than two years with or without hard labor. A prominent police official said: "I think Hammond would have got the same verdict from an English jury." The girl's mother did not approve. She muttered: "This is what they call justice, but they let him go free and that casts a reflection on my girl...
Chairman of the Relations Committee as appointed by President James B. Conant, and voted by the Corporation last May is Emery L. Chaffee '07, professor of Physics. Other members are Raymond Dennett '35, graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks, Mason Hammond '25, associate professor of Greek, Latin and History, Myles L. Mace, assistant professor of Business and Government, and Edwin C. Kemble, chairman of the Physics Department...
...Committee's members include E. Leon Chaffee, director of the Cruft Memorial Leaboratory; Edwin C. Kemble, chairman of the Physics Department; Myles L. Mace, assistant professor of Business and Government; Mason Hammond, associate professor of Greek and Latin; and Raymond Dennett graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House...