Word: monro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Counsellor for Veterans John U. Monro '34 declined to disclose the nature of these "tips," but said he was kept busy "chasing them down...
...Veterans Office staff, meanwhile, continued to comb its thousands of file cases in hopes of uncovering a conclusive lead. Although Monro holds several definite theories on the personality and background of the unknown crook who has used the name "Herbert R. Gross" hundreds of these files have been re-scrutinized thus...
Yesterday afternoon Monro asserted that he had some good leads on "Gross" and fully expected to catch the "first crook in all the thousands of veterans that have come through this office...
Aware of the fraud since last November, the Book Office checked bills from bookstores as they came in and last week detected the "Herbert R. Gross" authorization. Monro immediately sent warnings to the bookstores and voided all outstanding authorizations, effective on Monday of this week...
...Monro said the crook took advantage of extreme confusion in Memorial Hall to get his authorizations last fall, but apparently acquired a stamp some time in February and just by-passed the spring term book lines. Different book cards, with different numbers, were used