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Since the beginning of the fall term, the Blood Donor Service of the War Service Committee has made over three hundred appointments for students to donate blood, a more than satisfactory showing. Yet Harvard's contribution has been a disappointment, because the nod of the head to the solicitor has often proved a hollow promise. Over half of these appointments have not been kept, nor have the delinquent donors even bothered to notify the Center in advance. The staff and equipment stands idle because some Harvard student lost his nerve, or simply forgot. The irregularity of applicants in keeping appointments...
With Aniline in good hands, Custodian Crowley seized two other alien properties last week, and also appointed a new deputy custodian. The deputy: James Markham, a tall, grey-haired lawyer from Lowell, Mass., who has been a Crowley crony since he went to be Solicitor for Crowley's FDIC in 1933. The seizures...
Crying for quick action, 82% of the people, according to the latest Gallup poll, favor outright imprisonment of guilty "blacketeers." But Britain's eminent Solicitor General Sir William Jowitt, who knows more than anyone about the extent and ramifications of the black market, favored a shorter shrift. In a speech at Ashton-under-Lyne, he declared: "We have played with this thing long enough. ... I, for my part, would like to see war courts set up and people found guilty of the crime ordered to face a firing squad...
When young Assistant Solicitor Daniel Duke brandished two heavy, cleated leather lashes, crying out: "A man could kill a bull elephant with one of these," the Governor interrupted and took over the defense himself. Of the floggers he said, "Some of them thought they were doing the right thing. I have seen some pretty good people get misguided and cut the fool." At the conclusion of the hearing he remarked, "These men have been away from their families long enough...
...grey-clad figure who faced him over the threshold didn't look like a solicitor, though. In fact, Vag decided that his closest counterpart was the bronze gentleman who sat on a marble pedestal in front of University Hall. His prepared speech beginning "I always send my laundry home . . ." died on his lips, and when the gentlemen turned towards the corridor and beckoned him to follow, he hurriedly reached for his coat. There was a curious whistling sensation in his ears, and suddenly he found that he was again facing John Harvard, for there was no doubt about...