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...celebrate his homecoming after a four-month tour of Europe, Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler last week penned a "Patriotic Pome" for his column. While it failed to prove conclusively either that travel is broadening or that Peg is even a bottom-rung poetaster, it did give him a chance for a rare and sardonic bow to his critics. Excerpts...
...Yardlings have rung up an impressive record so far this season, but without Marsolais and Maynihan their attack is bound to suffer as Marsolais is one of the top scorers and fastest skaters on the squad...
...road's two-car presidential office was Harry Ashby DeButts, 56, a topflight operating man who has spent all his business life with the Southern. A graduate of Virginia Military Institute (1916), DeButts went straight to work with a pick & shovel on the tracks, hit almost every rung of the ladder on the way up. In 1937 President Norris made DeButts vice president in charge of operations...
...only be sounded upon notification from that august body, but at Monday's meeting of the Corporation it was decided to turn the entire problem over to Elliott Perkins '23, master of the House. Perkins was ceded the right to pick the bell ringer and to have the bells rung whenever he wanted to hear them...
...Turney Gratz, Kansas City friend of Democratic National Committee Chairman Bill Boyle, was called to the stand to explain about his income. During the four years that he was a second-rung executive in the RFC, Gratz said, Boyle had paid him $11,000 for "outside work." Boyle, at the time, was a private attorney representing, among others, clients trying to get RFC loans. Gratz insisted that he had earned the $11,000 by keeping Boyle's personal books and handling his investments after hours, although he was neither an accountant nor an investment expert. He admitted introducing hundreds...