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...Election of President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress. Its most significant chore this century was steering the Norris Lame Duck Amendment in 1932. One of the most active House Committees is that on Labor. Last fortnight a widow of 62, New Jersey's Mary Teresa Norton, succeeded to the chair of the Labor Committee and last week another widow of 62, New York's Caroline Goodwin O'Day, succeeded to the chair of the Election Committee...
...With an anonymous donor promising $275,000 for "research in American institutions" if someone would match it two for one, President Hutchins finally found a man willing to give him $550,000. He was Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen, who two years ago was so shocked by his niece Lucille Norton's breakfast-table talk about communism that he not only withdrew her from the University but provoked a sensational legislative investigation (TIME, April 22, 1935). Of the resulting Charles R. Walgreen Foundation for the Study of American Institutions its donor observed: "If our students study and are acquainted with...
Charles Eliot Norton Fellowship of $1,150, for study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, to John H. Young 1G, of Springfield, Mass...
...night last week 66-year-old S. Allen Norton, who was Mount Hermon's cashier at the time of Headmaster Speer's death and who retired to nearby Greenfield last August, went to see the police. In a state of high agitation Oldster Norton related that he was putting his car in the garage when he saw a man standing in the door, pointing a shotgun at him. "Hey, Norton, I want to talk to you," Mr. Norton said the man said. He dodged behind his car, saw his assailant run off across the lawn. A maid employed...
...night in question with his wife in a hotel in Keene, N. H., 30 miles from Greenfield. Nevertheless, he was charged with assault with intent to murder, and held in custody. Released when Vermont relatives raised his $10,000 bail, old Mr. Elder snorted that old Mr. Norton's story was absurd. Said he darkly: "I think I get the idea of this thing, but the less said about it the better...