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...dirty finger nails. No one disputes their preference for bawds, flasks and vacuums. It is easy to believe that their taste is genuine. By the same token one can readily admit the looseness of their code of business ethics. If they were on the other end of a Government contract or any other contract, they would bear watching. This would be taken for granted and due credit, without reserve, be given them for tricky cleverness. No cry would be raised that they were hypocritical...
Norman Bonney, one of the best known contract players in Boston, twice winner of the Eastern Contract Bridge championship and captain of the four man team which now holds the New England Championship, has been secured to referee the University championship duplicate contract bridge tournament to be held in Dunster House dining hall tonight and tomorrow night. The session this evening opens at eight o'clock when approximately seventy participants are to begin play. At the end of the evening's play, the field will be cut in half; Tonight's winners will compete in the finals tomorrow night...
...Post Office files showing that Mr. Brown's assistant, Warren Irving Glover, had protested against the Dollar Line's getting $42,000,000 a year in mail subsidy, saying: "Just as sure as God made little apples, if we go into this round-the-world contract on an other 10 or 12 or 15 million dollars . . . we will spill the American merchant marine program. We must not do anything to upset the political applecart, as that is our life blood. Congressman Free has absolutely told the Post Office Department, and he is very close to one Herbert Hoover...
...Post Office inspectors reported that they could not find a number of official letters of Mr. Brown's including one to Andrew Mellon on a mail contract for a Mellon air line. A stenographer in the Department testified he had destroyed 24 drawerfuls of papers after conferring with Mr. Brown's secretary. Senator Austin, a Republican member of the Black Committee, hastening to put a better face on this disclosure, asked: "Were they not just papers relating to eligibility, civil service examinations and such things as an opposing party might use if it came into office?" "That...
Major weaknesses in last week's agreement were 1) the fact that it is not a contract but a protocol; 2) independent stations, not members of the National Association of Broadcasters, are in no way bound by the agreement...