Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lives of Hungary's remaining Jews for 10,000 trucks (plus 800 tons of coffee, 200 tons of tea, 2,000,000 bars of soap), Mayer, representing the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, undertook a protracted bluffing game (the J.D.C. and the U.S. Government agreed that no ransom would be delivered), kept negotiations going until Hitler's regime collapsed...
Weekly conferences highlight the School's program of special events. Among the 40 planned speakers are Max Lerner, Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, and John Crown Ransom...
...stirred by the plight of his era's D.P.s-the thousands of religious prisoners languishing in dungeons and torture chambers. He founded the Mercedarians-the Order of Our Lady of Mercy-dedicated to the liberation of imprisoned Christians. Before his death in 1256, Nolasque had begged enough money to ransom 2,718 prisoners from the Moors. In 1317 his order vowed that whenever no ransom could be raised, two Mercedarians-one priest, one layman-must substitute themselves for a chosen captive...
...Smith, by then a corpulent old man, played at the game of dangling his inheritance before a group of younger followers. He was given to fits of genuine madness (he had once lost his wits on a trip to Iceland and accused Gathorne-Hardy of kidnaping him for a ransom). In 1946, in the last weeks of his life, he refused to see the disciple who had been faithful for 17 years, and in the end the inheritance went to another man. Magnanimously, he shared it with the loyal Gathorne-Hardy...
Stephen Spender, John Crowe Ransom of Indiana University, Peter R. Viereck '37 of Mt. Holyoke College, and Francis P. Magoun, Jr. '16, professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard will also participate in the Summer School conference which will be held on August...