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Before a referee in bankruptcy in San Francisco's Federal Court, fortnight ago, appeared all of the Fair's major creditors. Biggest of these were six banks, Standard Oil Co. of California, and Pacific Gas & Electric Co., with unpaid loans totaling $2,677,310. Next was a group of contractors and other unsecured creditors, to whom the Fair owed $1,464,913. Decision of about 65% of the creditors (including the banks, P. G. & E., Standard Oil) was to take their licking, split up some $650,000 coming to them (about 23? on the dollar), and have...
Famed, scholarly, 54-year-old Bryn Mawr College, near Philadelphia, recently began looking for a new president. Its third president, Dr. Marion Edwards Park, will retire a year from next June. Last week it became known that "prominent Bryn Mawr alumnae" want as their fourth president a certain Anna Eleanor Roosevelt...
...knew last week whether Mrs. Roosevelt would 1) be formally offered or 2) accept the Bryn Mawr presidency. That depended among other things on whether a certain Franklin Delano Roosevelt is 1) formally offered, and 2) accepts, and 3) gets elected to another Presidency next year...
...BRITAIN IS AT WAR - Harold Nicolson-Penguin (25?). Semi-propaganda for the literate: the British argument put with skill and fervor by a ringside spectator of British foreign policy since Versailles. The next Peace Conference will have a fighting chance of fairness, Nicolson thinks, only if a Final Treaty is negotiated between victor and vanquished at their leisure and at least a year after the Preliminary Treaty, or Diktat, is imposed. For implementing a future society of nations, he proposes (less convincingly) that all civil and military aircraft be operated by the "League...
Whether Chicago will be permitted to continue as a Conference member will be decided at a special meeting of the Big Ten next month. Quidnuncs predicted that the University of Pittsburgh, recently purified, will replace Chicago...