Word: salem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently-introduced bill calls upon the legislators of the Commonwealth at long last to reverse legally the convictions of the victims of the most famous judicial injustice in American history--the Salem witch trials...
...notoriety which the judgment of history has fastened upon the Salem witch-hunts, the true story of the trials is a little-known one. It is an intensely dramatic story, numbering among its villains many of the great men of colonial Massachusetts. And in the hero's role stands a President of Harvard College...
...great delusion began innocently enough in 1691 in the little town of Salem Village along Massachusetts' north shore. To escape the gloom of a dreary New England winter, the young girls of the neighborhood began to gather in the evening at the home of the local minister, the Reverend Samuel Parris, who had several children of his own. The chief object of their attentions was the Reverend's servant, an aged West Indian Negro woman named Tituba. To those impressionable children from austere Puritan households, Tituba told romantic stories of the colorful land of her birth. All through the winter...
...DAVIS Salem Lutheran Church Parrottsville, Tenn...
...International General Electric, G.E. subsidiary; Consolidated Electric Lamp Co. of Danvers, Mass.; Hygrade Sylvania Corp. of Salem, Mass, (now Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.); Chicago Miniature Lamp Works; Tung-Sol Lamp Works of Newark, N.J. (now Tung-Sol Electric Inc.); N.V. Philips of The Netherlands, the only foreign defendant. Westinghouse and Corning Glass Works of Corning, N.Y. were named in the original suit but filed consent decrees...