Word: sales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Davis said the trustees should divest of their common stock in corporations active in South Africa because their sale of the bank deposits indicates they "agree with the philosophy of divestiture...
...least the third question is true. Boston Mayor Kevin White has said the first question is true (although he may regret saying it to the press). And Bostonians, swamping the Boston Globe with letters to the editor protesting the planned sale of the paintings to the Smithsonian Institution, have said that even if the second question isn't true. Boston harbors enough of our "heritage" to justify its claim to the portraits...
...chaos has reached such a pitch that Boston is suing the Smithsonian and the Boston Athenaeum (a historic library that really owns the works) to prevent the sale. Ted Kennedy flew quickly into town (from Washington, a city he evidently wants to spend more time in) to say he doesn't want the paintings to go to Washington. (What's good enough for Ted isn't good enough, for George, evidently. George died without ever seeing the national capital he helped plan...
...never fear! The people of Boston are rallying. One gentleman told the Globe the sale never would have been necessary if it hadn't been for all those crazy liberals with "their anti-business attitudes and no-growth economic policies" that stifle Mother, God and free-enterprise. Other Bostonians, somewhat more constructively, are rushing checks to the MFA to try to raise $5 million for the SOS (Save Our Stuarts) campaign...
...week's end White and Senator Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.) announced a citizens' fund-raising drive to "save our Stuarts," and the two museums agreed to postpone the sale until 1980. Meanwhile the local newspapers could not resist some word slinging of their own. "Free George and Martha!" demanded the Washington Post. Sniffed the Boston Globe: "The proposed deal is akin to, say, selling Faneuil Hall to the state of Arizona as a tourist attraction." The New York Times offered its own cheeky compromise: since New York City is equidistant from the feuding cities, why not let George...