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...committee's report adopted by the Council at its meeting last night, was read after the adjournment of the meeting by the chairman, Wiley E. Mayne '38, to Sidney Q. Curtiss '40 and Merwin K. Hart, Jr. '40, who preferred the charges, Less than ten minutes later they presented the CRIMSON with a tyned communication. This statement declared that "the members of the committee (the Student Council Committee) were appointed by a man who was a member of the very organization that raised the money for the ambulance . . . At any rate, he nominated a committee to investigate his own activities...
...Davis Merwin last week took his doctor's advice, resigned as publisher of the Minneapolis Star, prepared to go on a long holiday in the tropics beginning with a Caribbean cruise. Since June 1935, when Des Moines's Brothers John & Gardner Cowles Jr. paid $1,000,000 for the Star and hired their intimate friend Dave Merwin to run it, the Star's weak 80,000 circulation has been pushed to 135,000. Previously publisher of the strong little Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph which has been in his family 101 years, Dave Merwin made a place...
...Merwin K. Hart, Jr., Sidney Q. Curtiss...
Hurling sensational charges last night, Merwin K. Hart, Jr. '40, and Sidney Q. Curtiss '40, in a letter to the editor of the CRIMSON, published on today's editorial page, claimed that the money contributed by Harvard students and faculty last year for an ambulance to be sent to the Loyalists in Spain, was never used for that purpose, but "was collected under false pretenses...
...basis of Article 5, Sec. 2 of the Student Council Constitution, which says: "It shall be the duty of the Council to give consideration to any proposal that undergraduates may lay before it--" the charge of Merwin K. Hart, '40 and Sidney Q. Curtiss, '40 against the Harvard Committee of the National Committee of Medical Bureau to aid Spanish Democracy, will be presented to the Student Council at its first meeting, which will probably be on Thursday, October 7th. If at that time the majority of the Council, a quorum being present, vote that the charges are worthy of investigation...