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...cash ("in the spirit of Christmas giving"), but insisted that no one had ever tried to bribe him. An assistant supervisor was accused of charging a 5% "commission" to contractors to speed up profitable contract revisions. Two high Board of Education officials testified that they were asked to solicit political campaign contributions for District Attorney Frank Hogan (unknown to Hogan) from architects doing business with the board. The chairman of the board's Committee on Buildings and Sites was revealed as the leading stockholder in an outfit owning land on which a new school was to be built...
...tempted to ask whether Harvard, even in a quest for excellence, should solicit candidates so directly and, indeed, so desperately. And one would feel better even about these techniques if they were less strongly oriented toward athletes. Glimp and the staff try to visit local workers as frequently as possible, to keep them up to date on University policy, but the alumni obviously have considerable freedom of discretion. This freedom, if misused, could lead to most serious imbalances in incoming classes...
...would be unfortunate--and even outrageous--should the Corporation allow LeCorbusier's projects to be emasculated for budgetary reasons. The University should affirm its willingness to leave the designs of a great artist untouched. If the present appropriation proves insufficient after review of the building estimates, the University should solicit further funds rather than try to cut corners on LeCorbusier's work...
Secretary Udall, who happens to be a friend of long standing, has asked me as a personal favor to him to solicit the Oil and Gas Industry in Washington in an effort to help the Secretary dispose of his "very sizable quota of tickets for the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner." Tickets are $100 per plate. Send your check...
What made the judge call the Popes stupid was an odd situation. The brothers were transferring funds between companies that were two-thirds or wholly owned by them and their families. Since they have enough shares to control Colonial, they did not have to solicit proxies, thus could have avoided making a false proxy statement. Whatever mysterious reasons the Popes had for the transfer (they have since returned $405,817 to Colonial), the judge chided the freewheeling brothers for ignoring their "definite responsibility to public stockholders...