Word: either
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government. Now, six months after Inauguration, nothing has been done. Congress was too busy last spring. The nine-man Law Enforcement Commission under Lawyer George Woodward Wickersham has been too busy fact-finding. And the 'President had to admit that there is no one now in his administration either free or capable enough to effect the transfer of the Treasury's enforcement bureau to the Department of Justice. So he called again for great-voiced John McNab...
...first attempts in this vicinity to make a reasonable and intelligent protest against what is now considered the abuse of censorship. Hitherto when a popular play or book has been banned, the only effect has unfortunately been a good deal of mud-slinging by those on either side of the question, without any effort to fight on common ground. That there should be some assembly whose function would be to discuss and criticize matters that come up for censorship, submitting at least an advisory opinion to the body in which the actual power is vested, has become manifest...
...view of the strain which Divisional Examinations impose upon Seniors, most of the major departments of concentration give logical encouragement to the handling of one extra course during either . Sophomore or Junior years; under ordinary circumstances this is for the sole purpose of alleviating the pressure of rigid obligations when preparation for orals and theses is in progress...
...gulled. Last week many a person in Manhattan chuckled at the thought that perhaps Town Crier Alexander (''The Great") Woollcott deserved to have his pudgy body tied to the end of some modern ducking stool and to be plunged screaming into some terrifying bath. For either Crier Woollcott had broken all rules of good town-crying and good reporting, or John Joseph Pershing had worse than weaseled...
...heroes. Mr. Morley's latest attempt to make money exploits Joan Lowell, touted literary hoax-mistress (The Cradle of the Deep). It is a maritime melodrama, written by her husband, which permits her to maneuver in the shrouds and employ the nautical idiom. But it is not funny, either in itself, or in the manner of its predecessors...