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...Taggart Jr. as national committeeman, elected as his successor Indianapolis Lawyer Frank McHale, deep-voiced, burly onetime University of Michigan footballer, original McNutt-for-President man. Also proceeding on schedule was the campaign against Senator Van Nuys, long on the outs with the McNutt-Townsend-Minton "two percent club," the machine organization to which State employes kick back that share of their salary. Having forfeited the last hope of Administration support by fighting the President's court plan, honest Senator Van Nuys last week seemed doomed. He had not even begun his campaign for the primary race against...
Seven times out of ten, the book is forthcoming, Metcalf asserted. Of the books asked for which cannot be obtained, 20 percent are at the bindery, 40 percent have been placed on reserve, and the remaining 40 percent are out. Surprisingly few of the books out are in the possession of instructors. Metcalf revealed...
...borrowed, half have been out more than two weeks when demanded, half less than two weeks. For that reason, Metcalf said, the project of limiting loans to two weeks, subject to renewal if no demand had been made, was "being seriously considered." He pointed out, however, that only six percent of the borrowers would benefit from this plan, whereas many would be inconvenienced...
...legislator who would initiate a levy of ten percent of the current tax rate, stated that he had heard no report from the committee which held a hearing at the State House yesterday, but said that when it is brought up before the legislature he is "going to make a hell of a fight from the floor...
...answer to Treasurer Henry L. Shattuck's contention that "Harvard brings millions of dollars into Cambridge," the representative complained that 41 percent of the land in his district was exempt from taxation. Reminded that the presence of the University had raised property values adjoining it, he said, "no doubt prices of land used to be high, but the influence of the Cooperative society at both Harvard and M. I. T. has cut them down...