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What the Assembly Investigating Committee of five Democrats (Republican Assemblymen refused to serve on the committee) now hopes to pin on Mayor Bradway has to do with payrolls, vouchers, and regular expenses of city departments since 1932. The Committee thinks that Mayor Bradway permitted many of these vouchers to be improperly issued. Said she last week: "I'm not going to resign unless they get as many signers as voted for me last May. ... I want to do what's best for the greatest little city in the world...
Light brown and neat as a pin, President-elect Clement is a lifetime Negro educator. He started as a professor, later became dean, at small Methodist Livingston College in Salisbury, N. C., where his late father George C. was Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion. When Louisville, to placate its 30,000 Negroes who were blocking a $1,000,000 bond issue for its Municipal University, opened a Municipal College for Negroes in 1931, Rufus Clement became its first dean. No high-powered intellectual like Fisk's James Weldon Johnson. Dr. Clement is esteemed among...
Mayor LaGuardia's ball opening the Congress knocked down one pin. With practice he later improved his form, recorded a strike for the newsreels...
...pact's proponent of its nature and legal effect. Widow Green told Surrogate Owen at an initial probate hearing last autumn that she did not know what she was doing when she signed away her dower rights, thinking the $18,000-per-annum allowance was just to be pin money...
...last year was blocked when the British held out because India has now a textile week of about 60 hours. The Japanese held out because their textile week is nearly the same as India's, and they want to sell textiles cheap. The horse trade sought was to pin Japan down to 40 hours which would be considerably to Britain's general advantage provided Japan's price is not too high, for Japan will demand larger markets in the British possessions...