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Hart and Curtiss, frequent letter writers on political subjects, asked the Student Council to make a "prompt and complete probe" of the matter and render an official report. They base their claim that the money was "collected under false pretenses" upon a news dispatch printed in the New York "Herald-Tribune" of August which reported a parade and demonstration of trade unionists and radicals thru New York's Yorktown and Harlem districts, in which Governor Elmer A. Benson, Farm Laborite of Minnesota, made a speech favoring Mayor La Guardia's re-election...
...that parade and demonstration, according to the "Herald-Tribune" dispatch was an ambulance with the inscription on its side to the effect that it had been donated by the faculty, employees and students of Harvard University...
Just as newsreaders were awaiting the first dispatch saying that British and French warships had convoyed some merchant ships safely past "pirate submarines," there arrived instead the first dispatch reporting that British warships had sighted two submarines flying the Spanish Rightist flag being safely escorted across the Mediterranean by a convoy of two German and two Italian destroyers...
...Stalin's sudden ousting of thousands of experienced executives in favor simply of Youth-which the Dictator considers more loyal to himself than older Russians with memories of how things used to be-was gravely slowing down Soviet industrial production last week. The Moscow censor even passed a dispatch announcing: "Bolshevik leaders no longer deny that the drop in industrial output is a result of the extensive replacements of personnel. They assert, however, that the drop is temporary and that the replacements were necessary to regear the apparatus thoroughly...
...bonds to Baum, Bernheimer Co., a Kansas City bond house, at an "emergency" private sale. St. Louis bond dealers, who had not been given a chance to bid, charged that the State lost $50,000 on the premium of $100,000 paid by Baum, Bernheimer. St. Louis' Post-Dispatch made the most of it, pointed out that the same sort of thing had happened twice in the previous administration and the new Governor...