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...himself a member (TIME, Oct. 21 et seq.) In Richmond last week, while two polio sergeants saw to it that nothing more potent than personalities were exchanged, the anti-Kemp factor won a completely decisive victory. Headed by Alphonso Lyn Ivey, ousted from the presidency in October, they got rid of Kemp-President F. Swift Gibson, Kemp-Vice President Gustavus Ober Jr., and eight Kemp directors, including Boss Kemp himself. Then Mr. Ivey went back into the presidency, along with the men who had served under him as vice president and as treasurer, precisely restoring the status quo ante...
...Press would never let a tariff be imposed) and a number of things of which the U. S. has far from enough (e. g. asbestos, cobalt, lobsters). In return he had obtained a better market for U. S. machinery of many kinds, for several fruits and vegetables and got rid of a number of annoying hindrances to U. S. marketing in Canada...
Hupp has this month rid itself of Promoter Archie Moulton Andrews, director and holder of various stock options and commissions dependent upon sales increases (TIME, April 15). Said Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle of Detroit in voiding these contracts: "Andrews' conduct was so bad that it seriously seems necessary to attribute all his conduct to an unbalanced mind and a dishonest mind. I cannot account for his conduct on the basis of one of those attributes alone. Acts of Andrews . . . had to do almost entirely with getting money out of the corporation...
...France is unwilling to lift even one tapering Parisian finger to raise it out of a chaos in which slie has no interest. Now that the League has done its dirty work, France finds herself in the embarrassing position of the housewife who must once and for all get rid of an old servant without having the neighbors accuse her too loudly of cruelty and ingratitude...
Paved walks have been common elsewhere for several decades. At least by the time of its three-hundredth anniversary Harvard should make use of this modern convenience and rid itself of all the remaining seventeenth century mud-puddles...