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Even humbler was the Rev. Brother C. F. X. Athanasius who had a fine still life of a plate of peaches for $35. Taxi-driver Joseph Dunphy would never have had his two pictures in the exhibit at all if an unknown benefactor had not donated the necessary $8 after appeals printed by kindly newshawks...
...Federal Radio Commission. When the Radio Commission became the Communications Commission last June, Judge Sykes was continued as chairman of the new body. When Theodore Bilbo entered the Democratic primary against Senator Stephens last year, Chairman Sykes chose to side with his later rather than his earlier benefactor. He made trips from Washington to Mississippi to take part in the campaign, arranged for anti-Bilbo broadcasts, did all in his power "to prevent Theodore G. Bilbo from crossing the Potomac in 1935." In return, Stumpster Bilbo vowed eternal vengeance upon Stumpster Sykes when he did cross the Potomac...
...recipients, past and present, of this mythical "Cambridge Aid" know that their sole benefactor was not the University, as commonly believed, but Daniel A. Buckley. Carl T. Peterson '35, Manes Specter '36, Edward A. Crane '35, T. J. Walsh...
...Townsend is in my opinion a public benefactor. He has succeeded in inventing a conundrum which reduces to absurdity a whole mass of ideas that have had great vogue during the depression. . . . They all derive from the same notation, spent which is more that they if would people be richer. worked . . less . The depression itself is the most drastic limitation of production ever experienced. The population on relief is the largest number of people ever supported in idleness. If there were any truth whatever in the theory that a nation can become prosperous by not producing, then the depression itself...
...88th birthday last week Ambrose Swasey appropriately received a planet for a present. A great benefactor of U. S. engineering (he has given $750,000 to the Engineering Foundation), white-bearded, bright-eyed Engineer Swasey has been manufacturing topnotch astronomical equipment since 1880. His firm, Warner & Swasey Co. of Cleveland, made the 36-inch Lick Telescope, the Naval Observatory's 26-incher, Canada's Dominion Astronomical Observatory's 72-incher, Argentine National Observatory's 60-incher, the mounting and housing for the 80-incher which will be the world's second largest when...