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...been announced that Professor Thomas Barbour '08, Director of the University Museum and of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Custodian of the Harvard Biological Laboratory and the Botanic Garden in Cuba, has been chosen as Harvard's representative to the Pan-American Educational Congress, which has attracted educators from all over the world, and to the celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the University of Havana...
Last week these words came from one time Alien Property Custodian Francis Patrick Garvan who mortally fears and hates all things Teuton. Accusing the largest U. S. bank of fraud, he was demanding an inquiry into the flotation last April of $30,000,000 of 5½% convertible debentures of the American I. G. Chemical Corp. by National City Co. Its advertisement of the bonds, he said, intended "to deceive the American public into the belief that the proceeds of these bonds were to be used to foster and finance the development of chemical and allied industries...
Garvan. No holder of American I. G. bonds is Francis Garvan. He first came into prominence when he was made Alien Property Custodian. One of his acts was to confiscate German chemical patents and sell them to the Chemical Foundation (of which he is head) for the fostering of the U. S. chemical industry. In 1919 he was awarded the Priestley medal "for being the greatest lay patron of chemistry." Later, criminal proceedings were started against him for the sale of the German patents, but he was exonerated...
Another act of Custodian Garvan was to sell the confiscated Bosch Magneto Co. For this he was charged with defrauding the government of $5,500,000 but the case was dismissed last fortnight. From these things he probably conceived his great hate of the Teuton shadow. Last week he accused Senator Moses, former State Attorney General Merton E. Lewis, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn "and his partner Warburg," Oswald Garrison Villard (editor of The Nation), and others, of German propaganda-all in his lengthy written attack on American I. G. Chemical Corp., which he sent to the office of the State...
...nearly a week Chicago had been shy 473 policemen, 224 firemen, 1,400 other employes. Alarmed citizens forecast dire results: uncollected garbage, unshoveled snow, unquenched fires, uncaught criminals. Underwriters spoke of higher insurance rates. To thicken the fiscal fog. however, City Treasurer Charles S. Peterson, self-styled "Custodian of the City Deficit," reported that there was no money in the treasury to meet a Jan. 20 payroll...