Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paul H. Buck, professor of History and former provost and dean of Arts and Sciences until his resignation in Feb., 1953, is currently sitting for a portrait which will hang in the faculty room of University Hall...
Contributions from faculty members are financing the cost of the portrait, which is being painted by Gardner Cox '27. It will hang among portraits of former presidents and deans of Harvard...
...stroke of noon, one day last week, Chief Justice Earl Warren strode through the red velour draperies that hang behind the long mahogany bench of the U.S. Supreme Court. As the Chief Justice and his eight associates took their places, Earl Warren's broad, friendly face broke into a quick smile. He beamed at Mrs. Warren, who had arrived from California the night before and was sitting among the spectators nearest the bench. For 65 minutes the court went through routine business. But in spite of the Chief's pleasant demeanor, there was an air of tension...
BRIGGS Manufacturing Co. will distribute about $62,000,000 (approximately $32 a share) of its assets to stockholders as a result of selling eleven auto-body plants to Chrysler Corp. (TIME, Nov. 2). The company will hang on to $18,439,705 in assets, keep on running its four-plant "Beautyware" plumbing business...
...Drunk-at Your Service." A rheumatic heart, debts and family deaths led him to quench his melancholy in drink. "I have been in a dilemma, either to get drunk to forget these miseries, or to hang myself ... I, of two evils, have chosen the least, & am very drunk-at your service...