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...shrewd Revolutionist Quinn this was just the beginning. Two months ago he demanded a constitutional convention to remove, once & for all, the "rotten borough" system. On the day the bill came up for vote, two Republicans were sick abed, three Democrats opposed it. Not to be caught napping a second time, Republicans dragged 69-year-old Senator Frank E. Payne from bed, stuck him on a couch in the Senate lounge, had a nurse prime his weak heart so that he could vote. Before Republicans or Democrats could charge each other with the old man's "murder," anxious relatives...
Long Island University was started in 1926 when a well-to-do Brooklynite named Ralph Jonas, who had already expressed his civic loyalty by founding his borough's Chamber of Commerce, put up $500,000 as the original endowment. With this, and a few minor contributions, the University bought an old six-story factory from Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co. (locks), rebuilt the interior into classrooms. This used up most of the endowment. L. I. U. now supports itself on tuition paid by 950 coeducational students, 75% male. Its faculty of 60 is remarkable for versatility. Professor Paul Kosok teaches...
...year-old lawyer, a graduate of Columbia College and Law School, a Park Avenue socialite, a Republican, father of seven, past commander of four war veterans' societies. As President-Justice of New York City's Municipal Courts he earns $227.69 per week. David M. Zwanziger of Queens Borough is a 37-year-old engineer, a graduate of the College of the City of New York and Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, who knows five languages. For months he had earned nothing until, last August, he got a WPA job as construction engineer at $35.77 per week...
...topnotch entertainment. Second only to the works of Zane Grey, the Hopalong Cassidy series have sold 1,500,000 copies in the U. S., have been translated into German, Polish, Spanish, the Scandinavian. Clarence Edward Mulford published his first Western in 1907 when he was a city clerk in Borough Hall. Brooklyn. Seventeen years later he took his first trip West, to have a look at the locale he had been writing about. When, about six years ago, his royalties became sizable, Author Mulford bought a house in Fryeburg, Me., threw away his white shirts & collars, settled down to write...
Last week's event in Rhode Island was an aftermath of last January's legislative coup d'etat. By a rotten borough system Republicans had always held control of the State Senate, and by an ingenious law, the Senate, if it did not wish to confirm the Governor's appointees, could name other officers in their stead. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor might be Democrats, the General Assembly might be controlled by a Democratic majority, but Republicans still ran Rhode Island. Such was the situation in 1933 and 1934. One afternoon last January, when Governor Theodore...