Word: overseerers
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While the slave trader (Andrew Jackson was one for a while) and the overseer with his bull whip were the logical villains of slavery, the master sometimes outdid them in inventive cruelty. One South Carolina owner used to put his Negroes in hogsheads with nails driven, in all around and...
With a court-appointed receiver and Judge Watkins keeping eyes on him, Lias has become a grudgingly effective overseer. Since 1952, Wheeling Downs has paid $4,000,000 in federal, state and local taxes and provided its stockholders a $50,000 dividend. Net worth of the racing association has climbed...
McCarthy, confused about the relations of Aldrich and Kamin to the University (he thought Aldrich an overseer and Kamin a professor) termed the ruling "ridiculous to the point of being ludicrous." He suggested that impeachment be considered. When the trial began in November he had said he thought Judge Aldrich...
Dillon, an Overseer, was chairman of Dillon, Read and Co. an investment banking firm until his appointment as Ambassador in 1953.
The Overseer pointed out that the Harvard Medical Center, which comprises the Medical School and its seven affiliated hospitals, last year had to spend $1,000,000 out of its own "strained general funds" merely to pay for such overhead items as assistants, lighting, and building maintenance on the research...