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Wisconsin-born, leonine Leo Crowley, ex-Alien Property Custodian, ex-chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp...
...dunning bank thoughtfully appointed Lombardo custodian of the books until loan and interest were paid. The labor leader's followers took up a colecta among Mexico City intellectuals and trade unionists; they hoped to rescue the library within a week or so. A sympathetic friend remarked that now was a time for Moscow gold to come to the rescue, if there were any around. Said Lombardo, puffing on his pipe: "That's a good idea. I never thought...
...regard as his private affairs." But he pointed out that he did not deliver opinions upon the peculiar habits of Christian society; why, then, had the outside world taken exception to his own tribe's age-old customs? In his capacity as King of all Kom Villages, Rainmaker, Custodian of the Tribal Lands and Link between the Dead, the Living and the Unborn, it was his job to see that tradition was preserved...
...record of Harvard graduates in the early 18th century is the special province of Clarence K. Shipton '26, custodian of the University archives. For the past 20 years Shipton has been compiling the biographies of the alumni of that period...
...Helene Demuth and her famed husband Karl Marx. Now & then a Communist or Socialist deputation stops by to pay its respects and leave behind a wreath. Otherwise the grave of the man whom both Communists and Socialists claim as their spiritual father is neglected and weed-grown. Its official custodian, another Marx grandson named Edgar Longuet, lives far away in a Paris suburb...