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From time to time we get inquiries in the Princetonian office from irritated and curious undergraduates wondering if there is any logical reason for the seven o'clock bell...
...shadow of Nassau Hall probably become inured to the clamor after a short time and find they can sleep through it. The thing is a nuisance, however, and if the Commons men can be supplied with alarm clocks and the sentimentalists reconciled, we suggest that it be abolished. --Daily Princetonian...
President Cohu, a youthful Princetonian (1917), was an investment broker, head of Air Investors Inc. which is a substantial Avco stockholder. He could not deny Mr. Cord's statement last week that Avco had lost money since its birth,* but he did say that the fight with Mr. Cord had been brewing for months because of Cord's efforts to "jam Stinson planes down the company's throats." Cord builds Stinsons and the Lycoming engines that pull them. Old guard Avco men said that Cord was a poor transport man, that his Century Lines lost money, that...
...pleasant to behold as his superb golf game. Before going into the banking business (Field, Glore & Co.) he was an attorney (Winston, Strawn & Shaw), never worked for Quaker Oats Co. of which his father was executive committee chairman. He was called to Washington last spring when his fellow Princetonian, Walter E. Hope of New York, resigned. Of late he has been giving most of his time to settling tax accounts with insolvent taxpayers. His purpose wherever possible has been to try to keep a taxpayer a taxpayer. It was the Treasury's expectation, according to Assistant Secretary Douglas, that...
...Straw votes in 47 colleges (compiled by The Daily Princetonian): Hoover, 29,289; Roosevelt, 18,212; Thomas, 10,470; Foster, 715. Harvard, Yale and Princeton went heavily for the Republican nominee...