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...holiday. During his absence, auditors found discrepancies and inaccuracies in his books, a total shortage of some $4,000. Bowdoin deferred action, hoping its bursar would return and explain. But he stayed missing. Announcing that the shortage is covered by bond, Bowdoin's President Kenneth Charles Morton Sills last week declared Bursar Thalheimer "relieved of his duties...
...Brainard '35, E. E. Calvin '35, R. R. McGoodwin '35, and Huntington Thom '35. More Sophomores can be nominated by handing in to the secretary before Monday a petition signed by ten members of the House. The old committee consists of A. B. Gardiner '33, chairman, Morton McMichael '33, and J. L. Hutter...
Until last week nobody considered "Jimmy" Walker a quitter. Even after he turned out to be the first Mayor of New York to resign under fire, hundreds of thousands of citizens refused to think the worst of him. Radio Crooner Morton Downey, Publisher Generoso Pope (Il Progresso-Italo-Americano) and Theatre Man Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal were among the first to rush to his flower-filled Mayfair apartment on Park Avenue where he was lolling around in blue silk pajamas and assure him that, even out of office, he was still "the greatest fellow on earth...
...Morton Downey, Rudy Vallee and other high-priced crooners were doubtless astonished last week to learn that comparatively unknown singers in Broadway night clubs had been paid such prices for the past 13 years. But Messrs. Downey & Vallee must have been relieved to know that it was not the nightclub proprietors who paid. Exposed as anonymous benefactor to dozens of night club crooners was one George D. Phelan, 39-year-old employe of J. S. Bache & Co., Manhattan brokers...
...Republican National Committee. Republican members: William Edward Best, Pittsburgh lawyer, president of the U. S. Building & Loan League; Dr. John Matthews Gries. Ohio economist, onetime (1921-28) chief of the Commerce Department's building & housing division. Democratic members: Nathan Adams, president of First National Bank of Dallas; Henry Morton Bodfish of Chicago, executive director of U. S. Building & Loan League. In the House, before he was retired by the late Dwight Whitney Morrow in the 1930 Senate contest, Mr. Fort specialized in agricultural legislation, fancied himself as an urban expert on farm problems. Patterned after the Government's land bank...