Word: noting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student, a Lowell House Junior, received through the mall an extortion note accompanied by a picture of a disrobed female reposing on a bench. "Remember the Rivera or was it Revere?" was the salutation of the letter. The text of the missive was brief--"Five thousand dollars . . . . OR ELSE." The signature was simply "Bev, the clutch," a name feared by the student to be that of a notorious Harvard Square and Huntington Avenue blackmailer...
Concluding on a note of brimming optimism, Miss Madden states that "future Radcliffe athletes should present a smooth appearance on any field...
...pleasure to see the way in which the additional ten dollars required of each student by the Hygiene Department is being spent. As distaste for the Department and Stillman decreases, however, more money will probably be demanded for further improvement. In taking note of this possibility, the University must realize that undergraduates are paying all they can. At the moment it is enough to realize that the nursing staff of the Infirmary under Miss Corbett's direction will treat each patient with warmth and understanding as well as with efficiency...
...expropriation of $400,000,000 worth of U. S. and British oil properties is approved in the White House as a justified crackdown upon Capitalist gringos. Britons do not take so easy a view of the matter, and suddenly last week the British Government sent a third note of stern protest. London papers called Mexican President General Lazaro Cardenas a "bandit." After hours of rapidly worsening relations, the envoy of Mexico in London and the envoy of Britain in Mexico City were withdrawn by their respective Governments, together with their whole staffs, except for a diplomatic caretaker who was left...
...Note. Broker Paul Shields, pleased with his success in being "the man behind" the reform of the New York Stock Exchange (see p. 51), several weeks ago set out to do as much for the utilities. He invited Wendell Willkie, Chairman C. E. Groesbeck of Electric Bond & Share and President James F. Fogarty of North American Co. to lunch, proposed that a neutral board of tycoons act as umpires in the battle against the Holding Company Act. Wendell Willkie objected and there was something of a row. The utility magnates wound up by having a conference with SEC Chairman William...