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Money. By Labor Day 1932 the Republican National Committee had spent $96,203 on its Presidential campaign, final cost of which was $2,611,380. Last week Treasurer Charles Barnett ("Barney") Goodspeed, husky Chicago socialite and charitarian, reported to the Clerk of the U. S. House of Representatives that the National Committee had this year received $2,050,655 between June 1 and Sept. 1, spent $1,787,811. Balance on hand was nearly half a million.* Donations of $100 or more accounted...
...London Bank Officers Guild and the Scottish Bankers Association jointly mobilized to get Justice for one W. E.Notman, a clerk dismissed by the Glasgow office of the Commercial Bank of Scotland. This bank, as many English banks used to do, operates on the theory that if a low-paid employe marries, the needs of his wife & children may sooner or later tempt him to pilfer money from the bank. Eleven years ago, when Clerk Notman was first employed, he was told that he could not marry until his salary had reached ?200 per year ($1,000). Two years...
...letter to Clerk Notman which was widely published in England and Scotland last week as a horrible example, the Head Office of the Commercial Bank advised him: 1) to wait six months, then apply for another raise; and 2) to start looking for a house "as the Bank could not approve of your settling in furnished rooms." Two months later manly Mr. Notman announced his intention to marry, was instantly fired, and last week seemed well on his way to become an heroic Captain Dreyfus of British banking as the Notman affair grew in notoriety and British bank guilds strove...
...eager spectators that the whole boxful had been lumped together the day before by Soviet President Mikhail Kalinin as "the bitterest enemies of the Soviet Union, leagued in a conspiracy to overthrow the Soviet Government-men who have stooped so low that they have lost their human aspect!" A clerk at Judge Ulrich's elbow read rapidly an indictment of the accused so complex that his swift sentences left spectators blurred as to details. Quite clear, though, were the main charges that the 16 prisoners had contrived among themselves at least four separate plots to kill Joseph Stalin, Secretary...
Haled into a Woburn, Mass., court for driving while drunk, smashing into a parked car, was Robert H. Ickes, 23, clerk on a PWA sewer project, adopted son of Secretary of the Interior & PWAdministrator Harold L. Ickes. Announcing he would fight the charges as "political," Secretary Ickes snapped: "To attack me over a young lad who is an innocent bystander and just trying to make a start in life. . I think that is pretty contemptable...