Word: williams
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Full Conscience. It is not that simple, suggested Catholic Layman William Gorman. In his view, there is a good case for an "adjustment" in aid if nothing else. Gorman's reasoning is that parents in a free society have a prior right in the education of children, who are merely on loan to the school as surrogate. Though society guarantees that the school may be of any persuasion, if it meets public standards, Catholics are penalized for exercising this guarantee. "It is radically unjust and in violation of the abiding spirit of constitutional government," wrote Gorman, "to allow...
More extreme advocates of splitting say that all U.S. corporations should split their stock so that it sells at $10 to $15, where it can compete with mutual funds. Many funds price their shares in this range (e.g., Lazard Fund, One William Street), keep splitting so that prices remain low. Says Harold Clayton of Hemphill, Noyes & Co.: "A. T. & T., at 20 or 10 or 5, is a blue chip regardless of its selling price...
...extremities), can also aggravate diabetes and may speed the spread of cancer originating in the breast. Hitherto, the only way to halt the effects of growth hormone was to destroy the pituitary by radiation or surgery (TIME, May 16, 1955). But Drs. Martin Sonenberg and William Money described a new gimmick that has worked in animals: they treat growth hormone (from cattle) with acetic anhydride, inject the resulting acetylated compound into rats. It appears to be taken up by the animals' systems in a way that blocks the effects of their own growth hormone. This beef-gland product does...
...Died. William Ford, 87, younger brother of the original Henry; of a heart attack; in Detroit. William resembled brother Henry in appearance only. When Henry left for the city, William stayed on the farm. "I have no use for cars except as something to ride in," said William, and when his tractor sales agency went bankrupt in the Depression, he was as good as his word, asked no help from his multimillionaire brother and got none...
...with snapping blue eyes and firm jaw, his quick step springing to the band's blare of Marching Through Georgia. The date was June 1893. The speaker, in the double identity that was the theme of his life, was 1) Thomas Ewing Sherman, eldest surviving son of General William Tecumseh Sherman, who had died but two years befofe; 2) the Rev. Thomas Ewing Sherman, a militant Jesuit, known to the lecture circuit as "Father Tom." The Jesuit began to speak in bullet sentences. "It was a Roman Catholic who planted the stars and stripes on the parapets at Vicksburg...