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Behind he left a penniless widow and a handsome three-year...
...California where later he formed Julian Petroleum Corp., a $40,000,000 producing and marketing organization. He left it shortly before it collapsed, formed a similar company in Oklahoma. When Oklahoma courts investigated him, he jumped a $25,000 bail bond, exiled himself in China where he died penniless...
...school system. A path to the top should be open to all of exceptional talent. . . . To accomplish its mission Harvard must be a truly national university. . . . We should be able to say that any man with remarkable talents may obtain his education at Harvard whether he be rich or penniless, whether he come from Boston or San Francisco...
...student without any financial resources to continue his education in a privately endowed institution. It is particularly difficult if he comes from a distance. Yet we should be able to say that any man with remarkable talents may obtain his education at Harvard whether he be rich or penniless, whether he come from Boston or San Francisco. This is an ideal toward which we must work; today our fellowship and scholarship funds are woefully inadequate. In my opinion we should have a large number of fellowships paying as much as twelve hundred dollars. The universities in this country should...
...Dutchman's confession that he alone set the fire (despite the testimony of German experts that he must have had accomplices) is widely accounted for on the theory that Nazis employed penniless van der Lubbe to help them set the fire, promising to save his neck by a Presidential reprieve and to reward him handsomely for hiding their identity and taking the whole blame in court. If this be true, Nazis would obviously have had every reason to stop him from writing letters as soon as he knew he had been double crossed...