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Said he: "The Cardinals refer to him, in hushed tones, as Fearless Bert Wilson. He has fixed upon the Cardinals a cold, disapproving eye, and frankly, we are not up to meeting it. We have lowered our own eyes. He has been predicting for weeks that the Cardinals would fold...
...defraud the Civil Service Commission. The electorate nevertheless had made him mayor of Boston four times, governor of Massachusetts once and U.S. Representative thrice. Political observers, knowing that Jim was pouting because President Truman took so long to let him out this time, figured that the boss might fold his hands and sit out the 1948 campaign...
...advantage of such organization is three-fold. On the side of the solicitors, it will frequently enable them to touch where the money is ripe, and ready to fall on the particular project at hand. On the side of the donators, it will prevent them from being irritated and confused by numerous requests for different projects. And on the side of the University as a whole--in terms of "futures," as Kane calls it--it will tend to keep the influx of money organized and smooth. Today, when the percentage of endowment dollars to expenses is lower than...
Several banks recognize the multi-fold problems facing check-shy students and have instituted a service which for a moderate fee advances the money and undertakes the tracing of a late government check. Since commercial establishments can shoulder student worries for a small fee, the University's non-profit loan office should extend a similar program virtually free...
...steadfastly maintained its autonomy. Not that there has been a lack of interest on the part of Moscow's Patriarch Alexei and his new friends in the Kremlin. In 1945, the Patriarch sent an archbishop to the U.S. with concessions aimed to bring the exiles back into the fold; but the North American hierarchy refused. Four months ago, another church dignitary arrived from Moscow in a hopeful mood. Last week he was on his way home emptyhanded. As long as the Soviet state controls the Russian Church, the North American Church would not acknowledge the Patriarch's administrative...