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...occupied for 17 months, walked down front, shook hands with Speaker Bankhead, strode out of the House to loud Democratic applause. He will keep the $14,361.11 salary he has collected plus $8,046.12 expenses. Mr. Roy was to get another $14,361.11 for services he was unable to perform, plus $5,638.89 for the balance of his term, plus $3,118.30 for expenses. Both will be paid the expenses incurred in their tug-of-war (but not more than $2,000 apiece). In the cloakroom afterward, undaunted Arthur Byron Jenks announced that five months hence he would run again...
Last week in Montreal, Chief Justice Robert Alfred Ernest Greenshields of Superior Court set a new precedent by canceling an annulment. Before him was the case of a mixed marriage, performed by an Anglican minister, which was voided by Judge Alfred Forest, a Catholic, on the ground that the minister was incompetent to perform the marriage and because of a technicality about the witnesses. The Chief Justice, an Anglican, declared: "Such authority as the Church has in civil matters is given to it by the law of the land, and the Church and every church is subservient...
...Governor this autumn.* His chances of being elected to that office would be comparable to those of famed Charles Seymour Whitman, who in 1915, after convicting Police Lieutenant Charles Becker of murdering Gambler Herman Rosenthal, ascended from D. A. to Governor in one swift vault. Should Tom Dewey perform that feat in this day of dearth in Republican manpower, by 1940 the Party which used to be called Grand as well as Old may be glad to consider him for President...
...Director for the first time this year, James R. Brewster '25, has been conducting a regular self-sufficient studio, which sells 200 reels of film to schools like Chicago's and colleges like Ohio State all over the country. Seven full-time employees and one-part time student perform still work and copying, make slides and enlargements, and take pictures...
Like Dr. Bock, she has had to overcome a distrust in the student body, and like him has managed to perform her task capably. Her difficulties were increased by the state of flux in which the Hygiene Department has been since Dr. Bock's advent. Discontent with the Harvard health service as he found it, Dr. Bock, keeping the goal of better health constantly in mind, has never hesitated to change the means of reaching it. And one of his means has been the corps of nurses at Stillman, who are ready to effect what he decides upon...