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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know much about penology," declared State Auditor Francis X. Hurley '24, yesterday in a CRIMSON interview. "I don't claim to know anything about it. I'm a lawyer." Questioned concerning his opinion of Mr. Gill's administration at Norfolk, he declined to comment, saying that he would present all the facts in the case in his report, but that he did not intend to interpret these facts. He stated that it was against his wishes that his investigation of the Norfolk Prison Colony burst into print recently, and that its extensive publicity was due to the avidity of news...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Complete Ignorance of Penology Is Admitted by Investigator of Norfolk Prison Administration | 2/7/1934 | See Source »

...obstacles to the realization of the EPIC Utopia are so obvious as scarcely to need comment. They fairly jump at the reader of the book. Not only is Sinclair's economic theory shoddy, but his Rousseau-istic faith in the goodness of man is child-like in its simplicity. That all the wealthy people in California would allow themselves to be peacefully legislated out of their property in a few months presumes just a bit too much on the softening influence of California sunshine. Sinclair's name may appear on the Democratic ballot in the primaries this August...

Author: By T. B. Oc., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 2/6/1934 | See Source »

...film. We were delighted with the customs of an irrelevant family in this film that was awed on one occasion to find Anne and Jean embraced at their front door and almost proud to see the same exhibition several months later. But then, these Frenchmen. The preceding comment is hardly mine; Mr. Clair depicts their idiosyncrasies...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/6/1934 | See Source »

...Comment: A step nearer perfection by a magazine which was already practically adjacent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1934 | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...whom the curse might be expected to rest heavily is healthy Herbert Eustis Winlock, the Metropolitan Museum's present Curator of Egyptology, who was very much in the thick of things at Luxor. Not for ten years did skeptical Mr. Winlock, 50 this week, bother to comment on the curse legend. In Manhattan last week, concerned about his friend and predecessor, he called the Boston hospital daily to learn Dr. Lythgoe's condition. When he found the hospital telephones so jammed by calls from curse-believers that he could hardly get his own calls through, Mr. Winlock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Curse on a Curse | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

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