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Last week Tammany Hall was down in the dumps again. First off, Christy Sullivan, instead of doing what he was expected to do, announced that Senator Copeland was still his nominee to ride Tammany's Tiger. Then Grover Whalen withdrew, not in the interests of unity, but to make way for a stronger opposition candidate...
...records and last April made the following claims: Snellenburg's had an agreement with its landlord. Board of City Trusts, whereby, due to Depression-cut income, it could get its $682,000-per-year rent reduced; in 1933. Snellenburg's eight partners (including six named Snellenburg) withdrew $425,000 "of the profits . . . so they would get the $100,000 [rent] reduction." That agreement provided for repayment should Snellenburg's subsequently show a profit, but was subsequently granted again as an out-&-out abatement...
Serb Chucovich's Serb trustees first awarded the commission to Yugoslavian Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic, withdrew it when local patriots and Federal art officials protested that a U. S. sculptor should have the job. Obligingly the trustees fixed on Denver's own Maillol-trained Sculptor Arnold Ronnebeck. But when Ronne-beck's design of a female figure cradling a covered wagon in one arm came before the Municipal Art Commission it was speedily vetoed. An advisory committee of local artists and architects then held a national contest for designs, invited able Sculptor Maurice Sterne to help pick...
...child Charlotte meanwhile had taken to running around with a local youth who had taught her to ride horseback. By the time the baffled veterinarians withdrew from the cow pasture, Charlotte Gibson, 23, was going to have a baby. The upright Gibsons decided to shoulder her shame. They had Ridingmaster Sidney Homewood, 24, prosecuted for seducing Charlotte. He "had to be punished so that young girls in the future may be spared a similar fate. One cannot think of one's own humiliation, but of society in general, and the necessity for preserving the beauty and sanctity of love...
...which may eventually make the biggest Dempsey-Rickard coups look like small beans. Confusion. When Max Schmeling last year surprisingly knocked out Joe Louis for the first time in his career, his just reward was obviously a fight with Champion Braddock. When after contracting for the fight, Champion Braddock withdrew to fight Challenger Louis, Challenger Schmeling lived up to his end of the bargain (TIME. June 14), sailed home last month claiming to have won the title by default. His claim strengthened when the man whom he had defeated defeated the champion, Schmeling was last week training for a "world...