Word: harman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...followers is charged with the assault of a New Jersey contractor named Harry Green (TIME. May 3), was stalled because Green had not yet recovered from the wounds he received in ''God's Kingdom No. 1." -In 1916 an optometrist of Youngstown, Ohio named Dr. Harman G. Huffman fasted 59 days to cure his heart trouble, died of starvation. In 1920 Mayor Terence MacSwiney of Cork lasted 74 days before dying of starvation as a political gesture...
...Curb Exchange, Ltd." had aroused suspicion. Mr. Harrison, free under bond, had been around New York for some time trying to sell stock in this enterprise. The royal neighborhood of his address was not inappropriate, because the chief backer of the London Curb was none other than Martin Coles Harman, famed onetime "King" of the island of Lundy...
Beetle-browed King Harman was exiled by the British Government in 1933 after a reign of eight years on his cold granite island twelve miles north of the Devon coast. His exile was spent in Wormwood Scrubs prison, where he served 18 months for misappropriating the funds of Chosen Corp., Ltd., a holding company for Korean mining stocks. His only previous brush with the law occurred in 1931, when a Devonshire Court fined him ?5 for coining Lundy money in the form of 50,000 "puffins"' and "half puffins" bearing his own likeness and that of Lundy...
...little more investigation would have revealed to Philadelphia's ministers that Coach Harman's Biblical team is no publicity stunt but the nub of a talk he has delivered at dinners and to young churchgoers some 200 times in the past six years. Son of a Lutheran minister and brother of another, bulky, slow-speaking Harvey Harman, 36, speaks once a week for nothing, as often as he is additionally booked for pay. Says he: "I like to help out the preachers, because they have a hard time holding the young people...
...Coach Harman is a onetime University of Pittsburgh footballer, onetime coach at Haverford and the University of the South, now under a new three-year contract at Pennsylvania because his last season was so successful. His team talk, continually revised, shows Biblical as well as football sense. Excerpts...