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...next day, after a restful night at his secretary Nathaniel Simpkin's North Shore home, Hanfstaengl returned for Commencement exercises, ready to do battle with waiting hordes of "newspapermen, photographers, Communists, radicals and liberals." There were some on campus, though who were more friendly to the beaming Nazi. The Harvard Crimson, for one, had recommended that "in recognition of his government," he be given an honorary degree, an idea that prompted protesters to coat the campus with signs calling on the University to award Hanfstaengl "a Bachelor of Book Burning...
...Simpkin's recent appointment to the Center for Unban Studies will permit him to continue overseeing field work in Boston. The content of the CUS courses, he said, will be urban "school administration, curriculum and supervision, teaching, guidance, and service to the community...
...City gossiped that Hatry had bought into 20 other bookstores, a printing company (Simpkin & Marshal), a publishing house (Crosby Lockwood & Son), two magazines (Argosy, World's Press News). An integrated production-to-retailing organization seemed to be in the works. At week's end Hatry was mumchance. Secretaries had only one icy sentence for callers: "Mr. Hatry...
...President imposed his fifth, sixth and seventh vetoes on bills: 1) to grant an honorable discharge from the U. S. Navy to John Thomas Simpkin, twice convicted of overstaying leaves of absence; 2) to grant a year's pay ($8,000) to the widow of William Holt Gale, a foreign service officer; 3) to allow the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians to sue the Government for claims which they renounced for consideration of $1,000,000 in a treaty made 30 years...
...Delaware. Most of them at one time or another had sat on State or Federal benches. For a moment they sat in solemn silence while a clerk announced that the House had passed and asked the Senate's concurrence in bills for the relief of John Thomas Simpkin, P. Jean des Garennes, Christopher Cott, Seth B. Simmons and others. Then Sergeant at Arms Chesley W. Jurney reported to the Senate that he had procured the attendance before the Senate of L. H. Brittin, Gilbert Givvin, and Harris M. Hanshue, air company officials accused of taking letters under Senate subpena...