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...installed himself & family in a campus mansion (built & paid for by the university), bought a $3,000 car in a year when faculty salaries were in arrears. No man to stop the fun was Huey's political heir, Governor Richard Webster Leche (rhymes with "flesh"). "I swore to uphold the Constitution of Louisiana and the United States, but I did not take any vows of poverty," Dick Leche used to say. One of L. S. U.'s new buildings is Leche Hall...
Representing the Bat'a family in the U. S. is 24-year-old Thomas Bat'a Jr. At his father's funeral, all Bat'a employes vowed "in the presence of our dead chief to uphold his ideals: service to customers through cheap shoe production and service to fellow workers through high wages." Thomas Jr., then aged 18, laid on the bier a bunch of white roses inscribed: "I promise. Tommy...
Expressing dissatisfaction with the tutoring school system at Harvard, the Advocate Board voted last night to reject all future advertisements of the schools in order to uphold its integrity...
...vigorous opposition to the Fascist Powers", while Donald McDonald '39, Stanley, O. Beren '41, and Jack S. Orloff '41 will support the Crimson in the negative. Meanwhile in New Jersey another Harvard delegation of Lawrence F. Ebb '39, Phil C. Neal '40, and Malcolm R. Wilkey '40, will uphold the affirmative of the same question against Princeton...
...Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson, with the blessing of his beloved President, announced: ". . . The Federal authority must and will uphold the Constitutional mandate that commerce among these United States be free...