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...Peruggia who actually stole the painting, to this day there are questions as to whether he had help that night or if he was working for bigger operators. This is where both books dive headfirst into a huge pile of baloney. In 1932 a swashbuckling American journalist named Karl Decker published a piece in the Saturday Evening Post, in which he wrote that in 1914 in Morocco, he met an aristocratic con man, Marqués Eduardo de Valfierno, who told him that he had masterminded the theft as part of a scheme to sell six meticulously forged versions...
...this is fun to imagine, but garbage. Almost a century after the crime, none of the six alleged copies has turned up. Did de Valfierno even exist, or was he a fiction created by Decker in his declining years to sell a magazine story? Who knows, but all these years later, authors with a book to market still play footsie with Decker's wholly unsubstantiated story. The Hooblers retell the Decker tale in their last chapter, then lamely attach a disclaimer: "There is no external confirmation for it. Yet it has frequently been assumed to be true by authors writing...
...monetary resources the universities provide the city.“A lot of value is added to the city from [Harvard], but often times, that is overshadowed by the fact that it is not tax-based,” Ward said.In March, City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker proposed granting Harvard a “mini-stimulus package” that would relieve the university of a portion of its Payment in Lieu of Taxes—also known as a PILOT payment—equal to the total annual salaries of subcontracted janitorial employees who had recently been laid...
...response to the University’s low-wage worker cuts. The resolution that came before the Council proposed an economic stimulus package in which the City of Cambridge would exempt Harvard from its payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT). The resolution’s sponsor, Counsellor Marjorie C. Decker, said that the resolution is a symbolic method to highlight the absurdity of the layoffs. At the last Council meeting, Decker said she thought this type of gesture would shame Harvard into halting layoffs of low-wage workers. Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-09, a member...
...Basically [Harvard and MIT] are saying ‘we are worried about the future of our endowment, so we are going to lay off workers who make between $16,000 and $30,000 a year,’” Decker said...