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...I.T.U. Boss Randolph hustled to New York to dicker, featherbedding also became an issue. The New York publishers wanted to kill the costly "bogus rule"* that the I.T.U. had been writing into contracts for more than 40 years. At the New York Herald Tribune, the touchy bogus question brought trouble last week. When 30 lobster-shift (2 a.m. shift) printers defied the foreman and left work to check up on the backlog of bogus matter, they were fired. Later in the day, the union got them reinstated. But there was little doubt that the publishers' next campaign would...
...auto heir, came out of a British court tussle with his fortune undamaged but his self-esteem dented. Lord Chief Justice Goddard had decided against an art dealer who was suing Dodge for $27,200, the uncollected price of a painting. Dodge had claimed that the painting was a bogus Sir Thomas Lawrence, which he never would have bought if he had been sober. Commented the Lord Chief Justice: "Dodge was behaving . . . as what would be described in his own country as a common drunk...
West, the lead in the impending Harvard Dramatic Club production of "An Enemy of The People," was pictured on a bogus police "wanted" poster, merely for publicity purposes of course. However the men who keep the University clean did not see it that way. The actor's features were a bit too realistically felonious for the janitors to percieve the hoax...
While the scores of uninhibited pencils present a major problem to Harvard librarians, outright theft of valuable books runs a close second in the minds of Widener officials. Library patrons, adept in squeezing past the guards and equally well-versed in the art of filling out bogus charge slips, make off with an average 500 books each year. A more efficient checking system at the exits and a program to distribute identification cards to men using the library could easily protect the entire student body from the greed of a light-fingered...
...introduction to Steele, Carlson sent him a copy of his bogus anti-Semitic hate sheet, the "Christian Defender", which never failed to gain him entry into fascist circles. And sure enough, "Steele . . . received me cordially and we became quite friendly, for I know quite a few of the boys Joseph P. Kamp, for instance, with whom Steele had worked closely. And James, True and Elizabeth Dilling, and John Snow...