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...week of frenzied search by the U. S. Coast Guard, Lloyd's of London announced that she had been sighted by the British tanker Amastra 750 miles off the Azores, tolled its historic Lutine Bell at the good news. But from the Amastra by radio came a prompt and puzzling denial. Four days later word came that another British tanker, the Cheyenne, had sighted the missing sloop 260 mi. off the coast of Ireland and the Lutine Bell tolled again, first occasion it had ever been rung a second time for one ship...
...therefor charge the ambulance committee with the collection of money under false pretenses, and respectfully request a prompt and complete probe by the student council or a committee thereof which should render an official report. Merwin K. Hart, jr. '40, Sidney Q. Curtiss...
Hart and Curtiss, frequent letter writers on political subjects, asked the Student Council to make a "prompt and complete probe" of the matter and render an official report. They base their claim that the money was "collected under false pretenses" upon a news dispatch printed in the New York "Herald-Tribune" of August which reported a parade and demonstration of trade unionists and radicals thru New York's Yorktown and Harlem districts, in which Governor Elmer A. Benson, Farm Laborite of Minnesota, made a speech favoring Mayor La Guardia's re-election...
...execute any task assigned to him in the briefest time possible. . . . Military bearing and neatness are extremely significant. Nothing can more quickly destroy an officer's influence and efficiency than untidy habits of dress or deportment. The chaplain's bearing should be smart and alert, his address prompt and to the point... .Some officers, and unfortunately some of them were chaplains, have spoiled otherwise spotless records by saying or doing tactless things. ... It goes without saying that a chaplain should be possessed of personal integrity and exemplary habits, and should be a man of religious experience with pious...
...skirmishes, mutinies, desertions, marauding and general futility. Relieved to get out alive, Walker limped across the U. S. border with 34 survivors, surrendered to U. S. authorities. On trial in San Francisco for violation of the neutrality laws, Walker lied that he had intended no harm, won a prompt acquittal from a jury reflecting the public's readiness to wink at his kind...