Word: thursdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Died. Richard Whitney, 86, Harvard-educated, Depression-era Stock Exchange president and embezzler; in Far Hills, N.J. By wandering the floor of the exchange on "Black Thursday," Oct. 24, 1929, as the representative of a banking consortium, and bidding high on blue chip stocks, Whitney earned credit for temporarily stemming the 1929 crash. Elected president of the New York Stock Exchange, he lived regally, took to embezzling, and was convicted and sent to Sing Sing in 1938 in the scandal of the decade...
Three hospitals which teach Harvard Medical School students agreed Thursday to merge into one hospital corporation in order to provide comprehensive health care for Boston-area residents...
Robert J. Kiely will step down from his post as associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for undergraduate education at the end of the current academic year. Kiely, who is also the master of Adams House and professor of English, said Thursday that the position of associate dean has become a full-time job and that he wanted to devote his time to his other duties...
Kiely said Thursday that he did not know whether or not Pipkin would now assume chairmanship of the CUE. However, Dean Rosovsky said Pipkin's post, unlike Kiely's, "is essentially an executive...
...Sing Sing the prison barker called out "All men who came Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Mr. Whitney please step out of their cells!" and fellow convicts as well as guards asked for his autograph. He distinguished himself on the baseball and football teams and the prison psychiatrist reported that Whitney never showed the slightest signs of self-criticism. His brother made good on all his debts and after his release from prison in 1941, Whitney lived a comfortable, secluded life...