Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the startling testimony Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell secretly gave the Senate Judiciary Committee early this month and made public only last week. He had been called before the Committee to discuss the advisability of a Senate investigation of Prohibition. Instead, he talked of prisons. Since last summer's riots, President Hoover has been pressing a $7,000,000 program to increase U. S. prison facilities (TIME, Aug. 19). The House passed a batch of bills to put that construction into motion. The Senate has done nothing. The facts and figures of prison congestion which "General" Mitchell...
...would be interesting to gather together the headliners of the leading newspapers of the country and hear them discuss the subject of headlines-the principles on which they are formulated, the ethics of headlines...
...Board of Entrance Examiners. Until all three act at once and in accord, it is hopeless to expect any improvement, for the interrelation that exists among three forces makes it impossible for one to move without the other. It is not within the ability of the CRIMSON to discuss the relative merits of various plans for the solution of this problem, but it can point out that the present state of affairs needs immediate attention. Relief can only come from those sources that are responsible for the present state of affairs. It remains for them to face the problem squarely...
...Mayo Clinic. Last week Rochester's first citizen, Dr. William James Mayo, chugged into Memphis, Tenn., on his gasoline cruiser North Star on his way north from a Florida fishing trip. A newsgatherer got him talking about something he and his younger brother, Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, seldom discuss: money. Dr. Mayo assured his interviewer of a fact which Rochester, Minn., has long known. The Mayo money?and there are several millions of it?will not go to Mayo heirs but to the Clinic...
There are quite a few lectures a lacarte offered for today and one table d'hote course as well. At 11 o'clock Professor Wright will discuss the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, of interest now in connection with that other broken fragment of the Constitution which concerns itself with "Prohibition," while at 12 Professor Black will explain the reflection of light to those interested in that mysterious substance without which we could not go to college. At the same hour Professor Langer will go into the intricacies of the Bulgarian problem in Harvard...