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...James) Louis Robertson, 44, Nebraska Democrat who has spent 19 years in the Treasury and is now Deputy Comptroller of the Currency. He was named to succeed Edward Norton, who resigned last week with twelve years of his term to go. Robertson is also expected to support greater FRB independence. But for a supposed bank expert, his first comment on FRB's policy of flexible support for Government bonds-the nub of the bitter argument between FRB and the Treasury last year-was hardly encouraging. Asked if he approved of FRB's current policy, Robertson replied: "I never...
...still there was no peace in Egypt. The extremist weekly, Al Gomhour, offered ?1,000 Egyptian ($2,880) to anyone who would kill Lieut. General Sir George Erskine, British canal zone commander, and another ?100 ($288) to anyone who killed any British officer. In reply, Sir Brian Robertson, British Middle East commander, back from talks with Churchill, declared: "We shall go on month after month, for many months if need be. We shall meet force with force . . . We shall [not] be turned back from our policy by the passage of time or murderous episodes...
Bishop, Charlie Hoppin, and Jim Nathanson will skipper for Harvard. Crows will be: George Robertson, Dean Howells, "Butch" Horner, and Ken Kanrich...
...Lotta Crabtree, whose 19th Century theatrical career carried her from California mining camps to Broadway. Getting almost as much mileage out of his script, Producer George Jessel sets the story during the Civil War, rigs up a fictitious romance between Lotta (Mitzi Gaynor) and a dashing Southern spy (Dale Robertson), trots out a series of old-fashioned vaudeville turns, plays for tears, waves the flag (both Union and Confederate) and endlessly plugs such oldtime numbers as Oh, Dem Golden Slippers...
Heading the lineup is Bishop, who as Commodore is automatically team captain. After Bishop comes Tom Chinlund, the Vice-Commodore, then: Hoppin, Tim Brown, Phil Buckner, Tom Carroll, Butch Horner, Dean Howells, Jimmy Nathanson, John Newhall, and George Robertson...