Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beginning in 1539, the Spanish Franciscans had given generously of their labors and their lives (more than 300 were martyred) to convert the Indians-with practically no success. In 1828, the last Spanish Franciscan withdrew. It was not until the century was almost over that American Franciscans decided to take up the work once again. With three monks they began St. Michael's in an abandoned trading post on a 160-acre tract of land...
What close-cropped, drawling Sam Husbands, 58, did not mention, but what everybody understood, was that the stock sale would take much of the steam out of FRB's drive to prove Transamerica a monopoly. Though Transamerica officials insisted that the stock sale was only "coincidental" to FRB's prosecution, it looked like a shrewd coincidence engineered by Sam Husbands...
...glossing over their opposition (real-estate interests, a cynical political machine), the film passes up dramatic conflict. But as a detailed primer on rescuing a down-at-heels school system, it suggests a solid public service and offers inspiring evidence that aroused parents can get results when they take their problems into their own hands...
...turns out endless stories of prostitutes, gangsters, murderers. In college he edits a highbrow magazine and runs away with the wife (five years older than himself) of a law student. After they have hitchhiked, ridden freights and slept in cheap hotels, she writes to her mother, who comes and takes her home, while Richard adventures on through the South. As social history, The Big Cage is sometimes authentic, sometimes unconvincing. As fiction it is notable mainly for Lowry's ability to take sentimental and overworked material and brighten it with a calm and matter-of-fact humor...
Members of Harvard faculties who will take part in the project include Dean Mason, David F. Cavers and Robert R. Bowie, Law School professors, Lincoln Gordon '33, professor at the Business School, and Carl Kaysen, a Junior Fellow studying in the Economics Department of the University...