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When the Cambridge City Council met Tuesday night to hear Councillor John J. Toomey attack Harvard and Radcliffe as a "half-far passenger, with a special privilege pass, on the omnibus of municipal progress," and when it ordered rotund Mayor John W. Lyons to appoint a committee of citizens to discuss taxes and "other pertinent issues" with University officials, it was reviving a question that has long been a monkey-wrench in Harvard-Cambridge relations...
...back up Harry Hopkins, spearhead of a big new Administration push to stimulate Business (see p. 451), Franklin Roosevelt caused identic letters to be released at week's end to "My Dear John" Lewis and "Dear Bill" Green, asking them to appoint committees to achieve "peace with honor" between C. I. 0. and A. F. of L. "within the early months of the new year." Bill named a committee forthwith, but John at week's end was still thinking it over...
...sport of Governors-appointing honorary colonels to their staffs for kudos (but no pay)-was carried to a peak of absurdity by Kentucky's Ruby Laffoon (1931-35), who appointed 11,352 colonels. Currently Wisconsin's new Julius ("The Just") Heil leads all contenders with 57 new colonels, most of them affluent, full-blooded men like himself, many of them his cronies at the board and bar of the Milwaukee Athletic Club. Last week State Senator Phil Nelson, a puckish Progressive, gave public cognizance to the Heil colonels by offering a resolution (promptly pigeonholed) which would empower Governor...
...reports." U. S. observers guessed that he might be fighting crisis with crisis, as forest fires are fought. If European crisis-criers (see p. 19) were right and another Munich was really in the offing, his diplomatic flaring might give its makers pause. > Word was that the President would appoint Supreme Court Justice Brandeis' successor before going south. It was understood the new man must be a Westerner. Several names, none of them a standout, were in the air. Then something happened: a journalist friend recollected that extremely able Chairman William Orville Douglas of the SEC, 40, was born...
Late next month the Student Council and the Union Committee will draw up nominations for Freshman class officers; and to that list will be added all names which have been petitioned. The Freshman class president will then appoint the Smoker and Jubilee committees...