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...found a way to eke out their $30-per-week pay. They had been robbing the Treasury for years. When a package of currency contained fewer bills than the number marked on the attached teller's slip, the four old checkers invariably noted the lack. But when a packet contained an extra bill or two they pocketed the difference, marked the stack O.K. So rare and trifling were the tellers' mistakes from which they profited that it was a long time before their superiors grew suspicious. Then the Secret Service planted packages of marked bills, caught the four...
...particularly clever British ruse. During the Ethiopian War, swarthy millions believed that Colonel Lawrence was alive in Addis Ababa advising Haile Selassie. Some think he is now in Western Ethiopia and will yet pluck victory for the Lion of Judah. Last week in London was auctioned off a packet of letters from Lawrence which were extracted from him by ingenious Ernest Thurtle, a Manhattan-born member of the House of Commons. In 1929 Mr. Thurtle rose in debate to expostulate against the alleged Afghanistan activities of Lawrence, who was then flying with the Royal Air Force in India as "Aircraftsman...
...British hanged Robert Emmet, and his brother Thomas emigrated to the U. S. with his wife and daughter Elizabeth, who had a pretty talent in drawing. A fellow passenger on the packet was a portrait painter and steamboat designer named Robert Fulton, who set about improving Elizabeth Emmet's gift. Within eight years Thomas Emmet was Attorney General of the State of New York and Elizabeth Emmet was beginning her career as a portrait painter...
...Greene explained that all other records of the event, in the form of letters, programs, etc., would be filed in the archives of Widener, along with the packet sealed by President Conant which is to be opened in 2036; and certainly those in Cambridge 100 years hence will have a quantity of material to hash over...
Sealing up a packet of documents for Harvard's quadricentennial celebration, President Conant yesterday morning turned the eyes of the university away from the past and towards the coming years. What the future holds for Harvard, or indeed for the world, no one can accurately tell. But if the "university tradition" of the past gives indication of a healthy future, certainly Harvard starts her fourth century with a firm stride...