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...glad to see that President Conant has appointed a Committee on Seals, Arms, and Diplomas to deal with doubted legitimacy of Harvard's famous Veritas escutcheon. The baroque plaster and wood emblazoned over the Dunster House Library probably constitutes Complaint No. 1, as it is radically incorrect. When the original designers took their idea to America's greatest heraldic wood carver in 1929 they were politely thrown out of the shop. The craftsman said he would not be party to such nonsense. He proved to his would-be elients that the lozenged shape of the ornament was the heraldic symbol...
Goodyear's President Paul Weeks Litchfield was not particularly alarmed by the Commission's complaint. "The manufacture of special brand merchandise for large distributors is a common practice in most lines of manufacturing and merchandising," he remarked. "However, this Goodyear-Sears contract has for several years been the subject of a great deal of publicity and the objective of an anti-mail-order campaign directed at our dealer organization. We welcome this opportunity to have the facts aired and settled once and for all. . . . When the case comes up for hearing we expect to prove that...
From various parts of the country is coming the complaint that the left hand at Washington does not know what the right hand is doing...
...were searching a wooded section near Chesterton for the escaped desperadoes, had taken a microphone to the scene and were broadcasting what they could get. Captain Matt Leach of the Indiana State Troopers spoiled the fun. He arrested the broadcasters and to the Federal Radio Commission dispatched an irate complaint...
Arrested on complaint of Henry Huddleston Rogers Jr., son of the Manhattan oil tycoon, was his chauffeur, John Spinks, charged with forcing Son Rogers & wife out of their automobile into the rain during a night drive on a lonely road near Wayne, Pa., firing a pistol at them as he drove off. Chauffeur Spinks denied the charges, asserted that Son Rogers had kicked him in the back of the head and in the face when he was examining the car's lights. He did not know which of them had fired the gun, which belonged to Rogers, while they...