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...interested spectator of these, and 14 similar transactions, was the Securities & Exchange Commission's chief watchdog, James Aloysius Treanor Jr., a husky, hardworking lawyer who caught the eye of SEC by the way he had run an FCC investigation of the telephone system. He joined SEC as a lawyer, succeeded Ganson Purcell (now head of SEC) as director of the Trading & Exchange division in 1941. A soft talker, who used SEC's big stick sparingly, he has been watching new issues...
...Thomas Aloysius Foley...
Washington's Lieutenant Governor Victor Aloysius Meyers, ex-bandleader who once campaigned wrapped in a sheet with a goat at his side (TIME, March 18), got the voters' comments on his latter-day habiliments of dullness and dignity. Dull & dignified William F. Devin, incumbent, beat Vic's striped pants off-in an election to decide which would be Seattle's next Mayor. The score: Devin...
Fourteen years ago Seattle's Victor Aloysius Meyers suspected that he was about to be elected mayor. He felt a passionate urge to emit a few genteel and stately phrases. At the time, he was costumed in a sheet and was leading a goat; he thought he'd better change back into store clothes before he made his statement...
...wrote the show's music is Dentist Clay Aloysius Boland, class of '26. Unlike most college shows, where the undergrads write their own songs, Penn students see their Philadelphia dentist once a year for their tunes. Dr. Boland, an athletic-looking man, learned dentistry at Penn, but music by himself. In 1924 the University offered a prize for an original prom song; Boland won with one called Dreary Weather. Fred Waring, a Penn State man just starting to fame, recorded it. Boland has been grinding fillings and tunes ever since...