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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billings graduated from the University of Kansas in 1933 and then took up courses in foreign studies and the Russian language in Paris. After spending three years on the staff of the American Embassy in Moscow working under Ambassador William C. Bullitt, he enrolled at Harvard. Following receipt of his Master's in 1941, Billings joined the faculty of Texas University, where he started on a path which led to the Supreme Court...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Graduate Student Argued Own Case; Beat Army in Supreme Court Test | 3/12/1952 | See Source »

...clamoring for a formal New England League with Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth playing B.U., B.C., and Holy Cross. There would be little room at present for all of these schools on all-Ivy schedules and furthermore the Ivy policy itself would probably appear too sugar-coated for these gate-receipt, publicity conscious colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 2/26/1952 | See Source »

...Intelligence in Washington. Bissell had him dictate a full account of the trip, marked it "Top Secret," and swore him to silence. Then, somehow, the Top Secret report disappeared. Bissell said he sent it to the State Department; State says it never received it and the Army had no receipt to show that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Moment in TIME: The Katyn Forest Massacre | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...Internal Revenue Bureau shipped out thousands of stamps (marked "This is a tax receipt-not a license"), but at week's end only a few gamblers had applied for them. Instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: The Big Jolt | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

Over all of Sandrino's twisted personal behavior hovers a political fantasy: that Fascism will make a comeback in Italy. To hurry X-day along, he signs over Virginia's remaining lire to some underworld sharpies. For a receipt they give him a bit of black cloth, purportedly from Mussolini's death shirt, soon leave him holding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prize Heel | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

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