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Coached by A. G. Kulp, of the Graduate School of Political Science, and three years a member of the debating team and the Congress Debating Society of the University of Oklahoma, the University team consists of F. C. Fiechter, Jr. '32, H. C. Friend '31, and R. B. Eckles...
...coach of the Harvard team is A. G. Kulp lG. a recipient of a scholarship in the Graduate School of Political Science who debated three years on the team of the University of Oklahoma. Typical sources of American culture are the works of Aldous Huxley, Lord Bryce, Count Keyserling, and Andre Siegfried. The latter accused Americans of standardizing not only commodities but individual personality in his book "America Comes...
...form of racket in post office leases throughout the land. On the Senate floor the Department was flayed for renting, often without competitive bids, not less than 27 offices, including those in St. Paul, Dallas, Grand Rapids, and Columbus, Ohio, from a Chicago syndicate known as Jacob Kulp & Co. It was charged that the Kulp concern did what amounted to a brokerage business in postal leases, had issued some $150,000.000 in bonds on the strength of these leases, which was vastly in excess of the true value of the properties rented...
Under specific attack in the Senate was the Post Office Department's 20-year lease on the St. Paul post office opposite Union Station. U. S. rent: $120,000 per year. Property values appraised by the U. S. court: $317,000. Bonds sold by Kulp on the property: $1,150,000. In March 1928, the Federal Grand Jury at St. Paul expressed its opinion that the lease was "tainted with fraud and corruption." Rent payments thereupon ceased, pending action by the Department of Justice. Nothing has happened in two years...
...this "General" Brown replied, through Senator Fess on the Senate floor, that he had not seen the files on the case because the Department of Justice held them in connection with the Kulp company's suit to obtain unpaid rent. The Department of Justice, stirred by Senate criticism, issued a statement defending its handling of the St. Paul case...