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...writing the mayors of Lincoln Park, Inkster and Melvindale suggesting that they annex it," he said. "If they want it, they can have it." Meantime, he added, "It's going to be tough to get snow-removal trucks in there between now and spring...
Following a semi-General Education pattern, the seminars would emphasize ideas to the exclusion of historical facts. They would not be connected in any way with a somewhat similar course dealing with current great issues, proposed by the Annex Council last fall...
Soon the racket began to snowball. Loyal young Democrats flocked in to see their politician pals, went away with notes assuring them of a spot on the Annex's roster of 3,000 temporary workers. All they had to do was punch in at 5:30 p.m., while away the evening hours and return to punch out again at 2 a.m. If anyone squawked, the whispered threat of a politician's name would...
Oddly enough, news of the wholesale frauds never got beyond the locker rooms until last December, when a group of indignant workers quietly laid the whole thing before postal authorities. Fortnight ago, Boston's Chief Post Office Inspector Tennyson Jefferson and 42 inspectors swooped down on the annex. Though they had picked a bad night (business was slack because of the railroad strike), they found 28 time cards punched for men who never showed up, and enough evidence to convince them that the Government had been bilked out of between $4 and $5,000,000 in the last four...
...Twenty Annex girls have turned in petitions for Student Council offices, including three for president, election chairman Sarah Pond '53 announced yesterday...