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Harvard's candidate for the Cambridge City Council, Albert L. Maguire '40, last night called for a shake-up in the city government, in a strong appeal for University support in the final election next Tuesday...
...amiable reviews, amiable literary gossip, mildly titillating personal ads, weekly word puzzle, reached some 30,000 readers. Dr. Canby stepped down as editor in 1936, irascible Bernard De Voto stepped up. Two years later De Voto turned over direction to young, good-natured George Stevens. Last week another shake-up left The Saturday Review with the same editors but new owners. Purchaser was tall, hard-working Joseph Hilton Smyth, onetime pulp editor, conductor of a mimeographed sheet analyzing foreign affairs, who in the last year has taken over Current History and two venerable, distinguished magazines: Living Age (founded...
Britain's dynamic, ambitious War Secretary, Leslie Hore-Belisha, who last year put through a tradition-shattering shake-up of the Regular Army, last week suddenly announced complete reorganization of the nation's home defense force, the 200,000-man volunteer Territorial Army...
...asked its employes for 10% non-interest-bearing salary loans. The loans, however, were not enough to keep it afloat. Last week an attachment of its accounts by a $29,500 creditor forced the Transcript to go into U. S. District Court, petition for 77B reorganization-its second shake-up in two years...
...minus $203,000 in 1932, Depression might have conquered the company forever but for the clever maneuvers of young George Strohmeyer. This tall, red-haired young man with a fondness for dogs and fishing joined Childs in 1927 as an accountant, and was assistant treasurer when the shake-up came. Transferred to real-estate supervision, he cut rent costs $500,000 by abandoning bad property, persuading landlords that it would be less unprofitable to reduce Childs rent than to force the company into bankruptcy. In 1933 George Strohmeyer became president at 35. In 1936 Childs made a profit...