Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colorado's capitol building at Denver makes an ideal home for visiting pigeons. The crannies are comfortable and from time to time Colorado's philanthropic legislators provide a penny's worth of peanuts, prime pigeon fare. But last week the birds returned evil for good. Through a window they entered the legislative chamber, scratched, cooed, flew about the high ceiling making themselves a nuisance. Debate on a $600,000 appropriation bill was dropped, the Speaker called the janitor. The janitor called his assistant. His assistant called Electrician Fred Karns. Finally, over the protest of several legislators...
...activities against the narcotic evil those of the Universities of Virginia and Michigan seem to be most scientific. Two years ago the Bureau of Social Hygiene gave the National Research Council funds for a study of drug addiction and the invention of a drug which would do for medicine everything which the habit-forming drugs do, yet not cause habit itself. Such a harmless, beneficial drug would make the manufacture of the bane ful drugs needless. Then they could be completely suppressed...
...Government employ. Three years ago he unearthed a series of "ambulance chasing" scandals in Manhattan. Recently he has been at work investigating New York City Magistrates with the result that three have resigned (TIME, Aug. 25 et seq.). Altogether little Mr. Kresel has a great reputation for ferreting out evil. His present position, at the other end of an indictment, is a novelty...
...appears an article by a certain Callisthenes upon the attitude of English public schools towards business. It is his chief premise that business is the major occupation of men today and for that occupation no public school prepares. But Callisthenes suggests an erroneous cure for what is a questionable evil...
...week the case, now a celebrated one throughout the U. S. Press, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court. During the argument, Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis made an observation which made many an editorial heart leap with gratitude. Said he: "Of course there was defamation. You cannot disclose evil without naming the doers or evil. . . . [Even if the statements were not all true] a newspaper cannot always wait until it gets the judgment of a court. ... [If their campaign] is not one of the things for which the Press chiefly exists, then for what does it exist...