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Officers of the Freshman Debating Cornell were elected at a meeting last night following a dinner in the upstairs dining room of the Union. F. deW. Bolman '35 is president, F. L. Weigand Jr. '35 is vice-president, and J. G. Patterson '35 is secretary-treasurer. The Managing Committee, in addition to the secretary-treasurer, who will preside, is composed of Morris Pfaelzer '35, A. O. Lindstrum '35, and C. L. Baumann...
...Chicago took up the case of a purported next-of-kin to the late Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel, the bulk of whose estate (esti mated $50,000,000 to $75,000,000) was left to charity (TIME, March 23 et seq.). On behalf of the claimant, one Rosa Dew Stansbury, small, 74-year-old spinster of Vicksburg, Miss., they sought to have set aside a waiver which she had signed for $1,000 without benefit of counsel; the fight began when Lawyer Hays obtained a temporary injunction restraining the estate from using the waiver. Predictable Miss minimum...
...course, which will be under the direction of Associate Professor F. DeW. Washburn '00 will be open to properly-qualified business men not registered in the School. This opportunity is provided through the terms in the will of the late George H. Leatherbee, which makes one course in the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration available each year without charge to men who satisfy the Faculty that their experience will permit them to profit from the work. Applicants for admission to this course must apply in writing to the Dean of the School...
...shouted a short, slender, red-headed young Irishman named Frank Murphy last September as he campaigned to be Mayor of Detroit. Times were hard but he would bring practical relief. Many good Detroit citizens were surprised when "Dew & Sunshine" Murphy was elected Mayor but many, many more were downright astonished when he, unlike most politicians, pitched in vigorously to execute his campaign promises...
Last week most of the dew, dawn and sunshine had vanished from Detroit. Its dole system under Mayor Murphy had brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy. Jobless relief had cost the city $17,000,000. Because of hard times $11,000,000 in taxes remained unpaid. It closed its fiscal year with a $14,500.000 deficit. Ten percent of the population was out of work. Thirty thousand fam-ilies-132,000 individuals-were being carried on the city's relief rolls at a cost of $1,000,000 per month. Fraud and embezzlement had been found...