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...actions of its professors. It was known, probably widely, that there was no connection between the private enterprise and the official Economics Department. Furthermore, other private ventures, though not of so academic a nature, use and capitalize on the name of Harvard. Consequently the University cannot be expected to defend its right to the sole use of the name. Intelligent subscribers to the bulletins would probably be aware of many of these things...
...Supreme Court of Panama met and conferred supreme authority to preserve order and defend the Republic upon Fire Chief Juan Antonio Guizado and his firemen, who in firefight ing regalia at once took up strategic posts in Panama City...
...able but infrequent Senate orator is muscular young Otis Ferguson Glenn of Illinois. Lately President Hoover has complained because no Republican has been rising to defend him in the Senate. And Tennessee's red-faced Senator McKellar was attacking the President with charges so hackneyed that even good Democrats were embarrassed. So Senator Glenn got to his feet and made a speech. Excerpt...
What put these Dry sessions on the front pages of the public prints was not their routine doings but the sudden appearance of Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, onetime (1921-29) U. S. Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition. She had come to defend her new occupation as counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 20). Because of her connection with this firm selling a grape juice concentrate easily convertible into wine, Drys have eyed Mrs. Willebrandt as a backslider in their Cause. After first refusing to hear her, the Temperance Council finally cracked open its doors...
...James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney; the suit brought against him by Timothy J. ("Big Tim") Mara, promoter, for 25% ($526,812) of Fisticuffer Tunney's earnings, in return for alleged service's of "fixing" politicians, publicity "build ups" et al. (TIME, Nov. 17). Next week Fisticuffer Tunney will defend a similar suit brought by Max ("Boo-Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia "fixer...