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...policing the community. P-D's public-utility reporter, a thin-haired A. E. F. sergeant named Sam Shelton, had long been convinced that Union Electric was buying politicians. Two years ago he got a break when Union Electric's moose-tall aristocratic president Louis H. Egan eased out a vice president named Oscar Funk. Funk, who had handled Union Electric's expense accounts, knew where more bodies were buried than a Nazi concentration-camp keeper. Shelton went after him, got his story, and scampered...
...these disclosures popped, North American, traditionally aloof from the management details of its subsidiaries, slowly decided that an investment-trust posture toward Union Electric would no longer suffice. Its then President James Francis Fogarty first replaced (but kept on salary) Union Electric Officers Egan ($58,000), Boehm ($41,000), and Laun ($16,800). Few months later, all three resigned and two other officers were demoted. Meanwhile, President Fogarty himself moved upstairs, and Ed Shea moved...
...Dave Egan of the Record: "Harvard by one touchdown. Dick Harlow is the greatest coach in the game, which should prove an all-important factor. I wish the boys all the luck in the world...
Harvard men naturally want a winning football team, but with the exception of Dave Egan and a few alumni cronies, Harvard men want a team representative of the University, and not a score of imported mercenaries...
With a typical cluster of Alumni 'sour-grapes', Egan concludes that the 1939 Harvard Varsity is the worst in history as "the logical result of Bingham's policy." There have been better Harvard teams, and despite Dave Egan, there WILL be better Harvard teams. But as long as Bill Bingham, and not Dave Egan, rules in the H.A.A., those teams will be non-professional, idealistically amateur...Thank...