Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...misdemeanors committed by a few of its members, Harvard has been extraordinarily unsuccessful in attempting to answer it. Following the precedent of all traditions, a curious growth has been nurtured by the Superintendent of Caretakers and has been allowed to envelop the intricate problem of student conduct. Administrative officials admit there is no logic in the plan and were considerably surprised to learn that it is impossible to find a set of rules governing the Yard Police...
...they have been able to check Italian victories by advancing with the troops. Last week Mussolini's flying son-in-law Count Ciano led the "Desperate Squadron" on a strafing expedition possibly meant to avenge Italian reverses which, as nominal Minister for Press-Information, he could not admit. After hurling an avalanche of bombs into the Ethiopian gorges of Buia, Amba Alaji, Lake Ashanghi and Mai Mescic, chubby Count Ciano guessed the squadron had killed 2,000 Ethiopians, counted in his plane holes made by three antiaircraft shells and 36 Ethiopian bullets, some of which struck his oil tank...
...Monroe F. Clouser, 52, was summoned to the telephone by a Reading Eagle reporter, asked if he had ever heard of any "mercy killings" performed by Berks County physicians. On the basis of the ensuing interview United Press and Associated Press broadcast the news that Dr. Clouser admitted having put six sufferers to death by overdoses of opiates. In addition to quoting him in detail as to cases, the dispatches reported Dr. Clouser as saying: "Lots of other doctors do the same thing, but they're afraid to admit...
...domestic war on the Catholic Church. 2) Charles Edward Coughlin, the loud Michigan radio priest who once cried "Roosevelt or Ruin" and since has differed with the New Deal on several issues, made the breach definite. He publicly proclaimed: "Today I humbly stand before the American public to admit that I have been in error. . . . Like a grotesque Colossus, this Administration stands astride the two extremities of social error...
...been necessary. In the seven years of his rectorship Monsignor Ryan reorganized and brilliantly rebuilt the only pontifical university in the U. S. Far from viewing a Catholic university as a glorified seminary, he instituted nursing courses, a School of Social Work, expanded the Graduate School to admit 800 students, the University to enroll 3,000 men & women. He upped the University's income 60 ft. For these achievements Pope Pius XI made him a titular bishop (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933). Catholic University did not surrender Bishop Ryan gladly...