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...Walter W. Liggett (TIME, Dec. 23) was Oliver Bridge Garrett, onetime "million-dollar cop" of the Boston police force, now a pensioner of Massachusetts taxpayers. Investigator Liggett reported that, with no visible income beyond his $40-a-week salary as head of the vice squad, Patrolman Garrett used to maintain a blooded-stock farm, a racing stable, a Cadillac, a Marmon, a Chrysler, a wardrobe of $150 tailored suits. Suddenly, last August, Patrolman Garrett was reduced to a pavement beat. Said Writer Liggett: "It is the belief of Boston newspaper reporters that Garrett was 'bagman' for certain higher...
Minnesota and its University presently find themselves in the not enviable position of the man who, not once but several times, cut off generous slices of his nose to spite his face. The state rightfully wishes to maintain a university that will be an honor to the state. At the same time it sits back and watches that institution depleted of its most necessary resources--great men in the faculty...
...CRIMSON has declared itself out of sympathy with the attempt, first of the Alumni and, secondly, of the student group, mainly because of the attendant publicity and a resultant inquisitiveness of the world into a private matter which should be solved primarily by Harvard if she is to maintain, in any sense of the word, her "specific code" of "enlightenedness, generous and fine sportsmanship, and pioneering in social progress," as the letter phrases it. The stigma is Harvard's; and it should be scrubbed out in private...
Should Britain take the escalator up, the U. S. would have the right to go up too, to maintain parity, and Japan of course would also build up, to maintain her ratio...
...carried 18,000,000 passengers, went 100,000,000 miles, used 19,000,000 gallons of gasoline. Lest patriots feel Greyhound benefits from free highway use, the corporation points out that it pays over $1,000,000 in taxes a year, that the gasoline tax alone would maintain two coast-to-coast highways. Four thousand workers, trained in special schools, are employed. The company carries insurance for each passenger. The safety record is held by the Pittsburgh division with 12,000,000 people carried in four years without a fatality. Between San Francisco and Los Angeles run Greyhound sleeper busses...