Word: nathaneal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jackson v. Denno (1964) reversed the Brooklyn cop-killing conviction of Nathan Jackson, who claimed that he had been drugged when he confessed. The court said that judges must now determine the voluntariness of disputed confessions before allowing juries to weigh them as evidence. But this month, having lost in a voluntariness hearing, Jackson was again sentenced to death. By last week trial judges had rebuffed four other New York murder defendants under the new procedure...
Isadore Twersky '51, associate professor of Hebrew and Jewish History, has been named the Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, he will fill the chair vacant for seven years, which was previously held by his former teacher, Harry A. Wolfson...
...fight Reconstruction, Klansmen decided to organize nationally. In Nashville, in 1867, they drew up a constitution, picked for their Imperial Wizard the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, and turned their talents to terrorism. Cloaked in their sheets and masks, they rode the countryside thirsting for violence. Anyone-white or black-who cooperated with Reconstruction was fair game for barbarism. White men who taught in Negro schools were lashed, and their schools were set afire and reduced to ashes. Negroes who refused to work for white men, or who seemed to flourish on their own, were thrashed with whips; some were...
...most part, the Klan's outrages were applauded by Southerners who felt that the K.K.K. was the last best hope for the South's lily-white cause. But in 1869, Nathan Forrest himself ordered the Klan to disband. As University of Florida Professor David Chalmers writes in his book, Hooded Americanism, "A secret masked society, composed of autonomous units, dedicated to the use of force, operating in unsettled times, proved impossible to control. The better citizens were dropping out and the quality of membership in many of the states was declining...
President and Mrs. Nathan M. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy St. on the first Sunday of the month, April 4. from 4 to 6 p.m., and will be happy to welcome members of the faculties and the holding Corporation appointments and their wives or husbands...