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Most doubtful this morning was the election for the position of Atterney-General, where the present incumbent, Paul A. Dever, was making heavy inroads on an early lead piled up by Barnes. It appeared probble that when the final returns are in Dever will be reelected by a narrow margin...
...separating Harvard from Cambridge was slightly hazy. In a statement to the CRIMSON immediately after the meeting Tuesday night, Law Professor McLaughlin expressed the opinion that the Legislature could alter the bounds of municipalities even without the consent of the district's inhabitants. The office of Massachusetts Attorney General Dever is looking into the case, and in general supported the view of Professor McLaughlin. Dever referred the CRIMSON to the case of the Commonwealth vs. Plaisted, where a decision handed down by Chief Justice Morton quoted a statement of Chief Justice Chapman...
...prodigal careers which subsequently landed them in jail for life for murder, Herman worked his way through Northwestern University Medical School, winding up on the Chicago Board of Health. As the Board's publicity-loving chief during the regimes of Mayors William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson and William Dever, Dr. Bundesen had a ringside seat at a memorable political show. When Mayor Thompson ousted him in 1927, he started a medical column in the Daily News, got on the Sanitary District's pay roll and four years later had back his old job as Health Board president...
When Chicago's William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson was loudly gunning for "stool pigeons of King George" eight years ago, the best he could bring down was William Andrew Me Andrew, the city's white-bearded school superintendent whom Mayor William Dever had imported from New York. "Big Bill" flung abuse at Superintendent McAndrew, made a great hullabaloo about "pro-British" history textbooks, finally got himself elected Mayor. Superintendent McAndrew watched the Thompson antics with fine disdain, stood a farcical trial for insubordination, finally retired to East Setauket, N. Y. There he edits the "Educational Review" in School...
...Howard Lang. Bushy-browed Mr. Lang offered little light. His quarrel with Bowen Tufts dated back a dozen years to a personal feud arising out of a reorganization of Mr. Lang's real estate firm. He was questioned closely, absolved of all blame. Next Attorney General Paul A. Dever, a young, ambitious Irishman eight years out of law school, plunged into the case side by side with the Securities Division of the Massachusetts Public Utilities Commission. Slowly, day by day, they began unraveling the business affairs of Bowen Tufts, so complicated that by last week only the barest outline...