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Clay quit his $20,000-a-year job as general solicitor of the B. & O. soon after it went into bankruptcy in 1945 for failing to meet the terms of the loan. He charged that the bankruptcy was a "conspiracy" promoted by onetime RFC Boss Jesse Jones to keep RFC control of the road, put more RFC men in top B. & O. jobs...
...Last night a brief recount of the contributions to date showed that the College program was rumbling down the alley with increasing speed, surpassing in some houses the amazing $4.60 average donation of last summer's campaign. With the exception of one well-padded hardease who responded to the solicitor's pleas with a zine penny, students have expressed sincere concern and admirable generosity towards the tubercular scholars of Greece and China. However, the College comprises only one of the four zones of University effort, and its remarkable showing is dangerously off-set by the disappointing record of the faculty...
Prior to his University appointment in October 1945. Professor Cox served on the National Defense Mediation Board and as Assistant Solicitor of the federal Department of Labor. A member of the Law Review while a student at the Law School, at one time he represented the University in cases involving textile mills owned by the Corporation...
...Louis St. Laurent promised Quebec 73 seats (instead of the present 65) in the House, under the new redistribution plan. Finance Minister Doug Abbott, who speaks French like, a Frenchman, promised taxation relief. Transport Minister Lionel Chevrier promised that Quebeckers would get an "equitable" share of Dominion Government contracts. Solicitor General Joseph Jean did no promising but plenty of praising...
...brightest spot in the Democratic column was the victory in Rhode Island of promising, 43-year-old J. (for James) Howard McGrath, onetime U.S. Solicitor General and youngest governor in his state's history. A half-dozen others of the new crop of Senators are still in their 40s. Just 50 is New York's dogged, fair-minded Irving Ives, swept in by the Dewey landslide. Oldsters of the Group are 67-year-old Ed Martin and Vermont's bald, bespectacled Ralph Flanders, 65, a liberal-minded Republican Yankee businessman who had the support of the C.I.O...