Word: keswick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laird is a trial lawyer who has argued "many, many" cases of first degree murder charges and has had only one client hanged. Laird's parents left West Virginia for Keswick, Calif., where he was born. They died when he was five; Laird returned to Fayette County to be reared by his grandmother, aunt and uncle. The uncle, Dr. William R. Laird, adopted him. He attended Greenbrier Military School, King College in Bristol, Tenn., and West Virginia University, where he received a law degree in 1944 and made friends with a fellow student, Bill Marland. Marland...
Power but No Glory. The fight started in 1935 (the year Black became P.G. & E.'s president), when the Bureau of Reclamation started building Shasta and Keswick dams to get water and power to irrigate the southern part of Central Valley. The first generating units were completed in 1944, yet the bureau's irrigation program won't get under way until this summer. Thus for seven years the bureau has had plenty of power but nothing to do with...
Businessmen agreed. A doleful expression of Britain's growing disenchantment came last week from William J. Keswick, chairman of London's China Association: "The British stake in Shanghai is withering." Unless Communist China changes its tactics, said Keswick mournfully, "then clearly, whether we like it or not, the only policy open to us is to close down and shut up shop...