Word: atherton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Representing the CRIMSON at the informal debate yesterday evening was Alfred L. Atherton, Jr. '44, who emphasized that "little is to be gained by haphazard individual complaints," and revealed that the CRIMSON would conduct a poll next week to determine undergraduate views on this topic. "We should not consider the present setup as permanent," he added...
Theodore M. Adelson '44, Charles G. Alex '43, Gordon Allen '42, Joseph M. Ambrose '42, Adolbert Ames 3d. '43, John W. Armstrong Jr. '42, Fred G. Arragg '44, Alfred L. Atherton...
Birthday. Tireless Novelist Gertrude Franklin Atherton, 84 (Black Oxen, The Crystal Cup); in San Francisco. "Rejuvenated" by X-ray stimulation of her ovaries in 1922, she spent her birthday pounding out her daily stint of 1,000 words...
...grand-jury investigation of police graft in 1937 showed what the Old Lady was up to. Investigator Edwin N. Atherton reported that McDonough Bros, controlled men all through the police department, was "a fountainhead of corruption, willing to interest itself in almost any matter designed to defeat or circumvent the law." No one could open a bawdy house or gambling dive without Mc-Donough approval, and a McDonough okay was insurance that the police would rarely drop around except for a payoff. The payoff ran into staggering figures. San Francisco's 135 "regular, old-established" brothels and its hundreds...
...Atherton report produced only two concrete results: dismissal of 13 policemen who were embarrassingly rich and passage of a California law requiring bail-bond firms to be licensed by the State Insurance Department. Brassy Pete McDonough who well knew that the law was directed against him, tried three times to get a license. At the last hearing, in March, he produced as character witnesses Police Chief Charles Dullea, the State Highway Commission chairman, two police commissioners, three city supervisors-all of whom called him a gentleman and a scholar. Only effect of this testimony was to move Insurance Commissioner Anthony...