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...lost his trousers. Although the Press was unanimously outraged over the incident, few papers chose to print the photographs of the victims as a Horrible Example. Among those that did were the Oakland Post-Enquirer, Santa Cruz News and Sentinel, Los Angeles Herald & Express, Medford (Ore.) Mail-Tribune, Prescott (Ariz.) Journal-Miner, Centralia (Wash.) Chronicle, Oklahoma City News, Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, Gastonia (N. C.) Gazette, Anderson (S. C.) Independent, Johnson City (Tenn.) Staff News, Kingston (N. C.) Free Press, New York City Daily News, Mirror, American and Journal. The Los Angeles La Opinion painted shorts on Holmes, lengthened Thurmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Lynching | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...official program, about 100 pages in length, will not be ready until about Saturday, December 23. The official committee, headed by President-Emeritus Lowell, the honorary chairman, and Karl D. Compton, President of M.I.T. honorary vice-chairman, and including: Samuel C. Prescott of M.I.T., active chairman; Arthur L. Townsend, also of M.I.T., active vice-chairman; and Kirtley F. Mather, of Harvard, secretary. These officers along with Arthur L. Endicott '94, Comptroller of Harvard University, are exerting every influence to make this a smooth and efficient meeting. Last spring Mr. Samuel Woodley, representative of the association from Washington, was here making...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SCENE OF SCIENCE MEETING LATE NEXT MONTH | 11/17/1933 | See Source »

...Named for Mr. Wiggin's daughter Marjorie and her husband Sherburne Prescott. Other Wiggin family holding companies: Murlyn (named for Mr. Wiggin's other daughter, Muriel, and her husband Lynde Selden), Medfield (for the Massachusetts town where Mr. Wiggin was born), Greenwich (for his summer home at Greenwich, Conn.), Selcott (for the last names of his two sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Senate Revelations 5:1 | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

Some time ago there was a plan to close up Quincy Street and divert the traffic onto Prescott, by continuing this through to Massachusetts Avenue over a vacant lot. While this would be the ideal solution, it is unlikely that the Cambridge police in their present truculent mood would consent to any such radical change. Fortunately the University itself could do much to remedy the dangerous situation. If it forbade parking along the street, took down the great fence that separates it from the rest of the Yard, and replanted the shrubs so that Fogg and the Union would group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUINCY STREET | 10/28/1933 | See Source »

...Prescott, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 7, 1933 | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

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