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...problem is going to be the interest of the student body as a whole and their willingness to accept the new structure that the committee is proposing," Mc- Donough said. "The structure (a single body replacing the current system of several student-faculty panels) gives students new and important opportunities in college governance that the haven't had. They should try to make efforts to exploit those opportunities," he added...
...this case no one could ask for a more impartial board: Justice Roger I. Mc-Donough of the Utah Supreme Court, former Indiana Supreme Court Justice Mart J. O'Mally, and Gordon S. Watkins, provost of California's Riverside College. Their compromise solution: cut yard hours to 40, raise wages 18?; but no change for men working on the roads. Management accepted-but the unions disdainfully refused, and eagerly suggested that the Government take over the yards...
...Investigator Edwin N. Atherton reported that McDonough Bros, controlled men all through the police department, was "a fountainhead of corruption, willing to interest itself in almost any matter designed to defeat or circumvent the law." No one could open a bawdy house or gambling dive without Mc-Donough approval, and a McDonough okay was insurance that the police would rarely drop around except for a payoff. The payoff ran into staggering figures. San Francisco's 135 "regular, old-established" brothels and its hundreds of freelance tarts paid $400,000 a year for protection, its bookmakers $180,000; total take...
...retired police sergeant. His two sons, Pete and Thomas, tended bar. The McDonoughs began writing bail bonds as a favor to lawyers who tippled at their bar. When they learned that the lawyers were charging their clients for these bonds, they began charging too. After old man Mc Donough died, Pete ripped out the bar, dealt solely in bail bonds, soon became a millionaire...
Scali. To his widow, Inventor Marconi willed the interest on his daughter's bequest during her lifetime. To his son and two daughters by his first wife, Irish Beatrice Donough who divorced him in 1024, he left the minimum permitted by Italian law; to his first wife, associates and Fascist charities, nothing. Left-By Mrs. Florence Pullman Lowden, late wife of Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois, daughter of Railroadman George Mortimer Pullman, an estate of approximately $500.000; to her husband...