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...management could put it in the black. It was a "coincidence," said he, that the syndicate that purchased U.S. Rubber stock in 1927 was made up of members of the Du Pont family. The reason was that Irénée's brother-in-law, W. W. Laird, was the Wilmington broker in the sale, and he had to find participants able to put in $1,200,000. The Du Fonts were the logical...
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This unification of three of the most important parts of Harvard's eight scattered botanical institutions involves a major shift in University policy. It is the result of a secret report by a nine-man Botanical Co-ordinating Committee, headed by Laird Bell '04, presented to the Board of Overseers on January...
Charles C. Burlingham '79, joined R. Keith Kane '22, member of the Corporation; Grenville Clark '03, former Corporation member; and Laird Bell '04, Overseer, in deploring "any effort to criticize or reproach Gov. Stevenson for testifying" on what he had heard of the reputation of Hiss...
Pettigrew v. Passion. Linklater's setting is a Scottish fishing village, his characters a cross section of classes from laird to laborers. Too somnolent to worship Dionysus, too remote to be reformed by Pentheus, the villagers of Laxdale have only one wish in life-to see Parliament vote them money for a decent road over the moors. Instead, Laxdale gets a personal visit from Mr. Pettigrew, a blue-nosed Labor M.P. who regards Highland life as the epitome of insanitary sloth. He brings a shapely wife, who admires his Penthean principles but turns to lustier men for her Dionysian...