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...players, William Mann, said that he had received at least $300 from the club; another, All-American Eugene Melchiorre, told how club representatives would pass out $10 to $15 to players whenever the team went on a trip. The club recruited players, paid their tuitions, and lent them money. To all this Owen acquiesced, thus giving "official university sanction to [the players'] moral debasement...
Sleeping Enemies. Then there was Keith M. Beaty, a Charlotte, N.C. taxi-fleet operator, who got Caudle three cars at cut prices, lent him a fourth car and a wad of money. The U.S. has had a $2,400,000 claim for back taxes pending against Beaty and his associates. Caudle said he had disqualified himself from acting in the Beaty tax case. This talk that there was something wrong about the Beaty-Caudle relationship, said Caudle, was inspired by their enemies in North Carolina, where he was once a U.S. district attorney. The last time he was in Charlotte...
...five years of service as a fire dog, a black & white Dalmatian named Whiskers lent Hook & Ladder Company No. 10f Newark a flash and luster which made it the envy of the whole department. Whiskers slept in the big truck and never missed an alarm-even though he often had to gallop back from nearby meat shops when the gong began to clang. When he got to the fire, Whiskers would climb ladders and dash eagerly into burning buildings...
After five years of trying, the U.S. was finally going to get back two icebreakers it lent the Russians as part of the Soviet's $11 billion worth of Lend-Lease aid. The two ships will sail for Bremerhaven for transfer to U.S. hands before month's end, said a Soviet note. Promised two years ago, they have been stuck in the ice off Siberia, according to the Russians, and have apparently just become unstuck. The transfer will reduce the total number of lend-leased U.S. naval and merchant vessels still unreturned and unpaid for by the Russians...
...step was taken by the RFC. It lent $57 million, its biggest loan since World War II, to the White Pine Copper Co., a subsidiary of Boston's Copper Range Co. The money will be used to develop its holdings in the Upper Michigan peninsula,* which are estimated to have reserves of 309,660,000 tons of ore and a potential copper output of 35,000 tons a year. Said Copper Range President Morris LaCroix, who has been after an RFC loan for 13 months: "Now this great national asset will be put to work...