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Contributing to the Symposium are: Conrad Aiken '11 (who was an editor of the Advocate at the same time as Eliot); Howard Baker, poet and Instructor in English; Richard Eberhart, poet and teacher of English at St. Mark's School, South borough; Robert T.S. Lowe '11; Archibald MacLeish, Curator of the Nieman Collection; Merrill Moore, sonneteer and Associate in Psychiatry; George Marion O'Donell, Frederick Prokosch, Wallace Stevens, Allen Tate, William Carlos Williams, and Robert Penn Warren, all prominent contemporary writers...
...this "Franklin Terrace" Project is the Princeton Housing Authority, from which Inventor Lambert accepted tax-exempt bonds for his $30,000. They will be amortized over 28 years and meanwhile pay him 4% interest each year on the balance outstanding. After 28 years the land & buildings will become the Borough of Princeton's property, Inventor Lambert will have his $30,000 back, and the Franklin Terrace occupants will have had brand-new Housing nowhere else available at $6.25 per room per month (plus $3 per month per unit for heat...
...happened when Governor Herbert Lehman gave young Thomas Edmund Dewey a free hand to clean up New York County (Manhattan) as special prosecutor three years ago. pugnacious little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia this year got a Dewey of his own for New York City's five far-flung boroughs. Created under the new city charter was a $10,000 job, the Mayor's Commissioner of Investigation. Picked for it was a plump young Brooklyn lawyer, William B. Herlands, 32 to Lawyer Dewey's 36 and equally diligent, who had worked with Tom Dewey in the U.S. Attorney...
...political title "Conservative Party," recommended to his foes by Franklin Roosevelt, was pre-empted in New York State last week by loud-mouthed Republican George Upton Harvey, Borough President of Queens. The Conservative platform: the Constitution and the Ten Commandments, to fight Communism. Fascism, Naziism. C.I.O., American Labor Party and Franklin Roosevelt's intended "purge" of Democratic Representative John J. O'Connor. Heading a full State ticket as candidate for Governor is Conservative Harvey...
...Ridgewood, N. J., Mayor Frank D. Livermore got tired of seeing pickets of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen's Union (A. F. of L.) trudging up & down in front of the Charles F. Wenger stores carrying angry strike signs. Last week, Mayor Livermore submitted to his borough commission a new idea for restricting picketing. He proposed an ordinance imposing a $50 weekly license fee on anyone who wants to carry a sign on Ridgewood's streets. Penalties: $200 fine or 90 days in jail or both. His argument: while a man's civil liberties give...