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...reach this topnotch position in the organization. He entered Legion activities when he became a founder of Galileo Post in his hometown. A vice president of Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association, president of Pacific National Fire Insurance Co., Commander Belgrano kept discreet silence when the Bonus ruckus was shrilling about him, pledged a non-political administration...
...last summer Republicans in Washington gleefully made much of that State's strife-torn Democratic organization. Last week the G. O. P. suddenly found that it had a full-sized family ruckus of its own in the 2nd Congressional District. There a Methodist preacher named Payson Peterson was running against Democratic Representative Conrad Wallgren, one-time national amateur billiard champion...
...Journalism's general prize committee for scuttling the play jury's unanimous choice, Professor Hamilton hotly declared: "I think it's outrageous. The opinion of the judges, who selected [Maxwell Anderson's] Mary of Scotland as the best play, was arbitrarily overruled." Into the ruckus with both feet jumped Ralph Pulitzer, a member of the general committee and son of the embattled prize's donor. "The judges in these various contests," he tartly explained, "are merely advisory committees. Apparently they have arrogated to themselves the belief that their decisions are final...
...change caused a great ruckus among St. John's men. William Woodward, rich racehorse owner and honorary chairman of Manhattan's Central Hanover Bank, who has contributed more than one-third of St. John's endowment fund, promptly resigned from the college's finance committee. So did Sylvester W. Labrot, the committee's chairman. Friends of the Board of Trustees said that strongwilled, patrician Dr. Gordon had failed to "cooperate," that he had coddled rich students, snubbed and tyrannized others. But Gordon friends declared his lack of cooperation had been chiefly in a stand against...
...quickly got in touch with his burly, bespectacled friend and superior, Bishop Michael James Gallagher. There were matters to be discussed, counsel to be asked. Father Coughlin had got himself into hot water and headlines. Out in the open, where Protestants and Catholics alike could discuss it, was a ruckus which even the Pope at Rome was to hear about...