Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PATRICK J. WARD Director Bureau of Publicity & Information N. C. W. C. Washington, D. C. The Rev. John J. Burke's letter to the Living Church: The editorial of your [Living Church] issue for Nov. 5 declares: "We are not among those who delight in finding fault with Roman Catholicism." The editorial itself with belies that statement. . . . . The reason for this editorial is a business card which has come to your attention.* If it is not your delight to find fault with Roman Catholicism, why did you not take pains to find out if there was any such official...
...News gatherers tried to find out what President Coolidge might do when his term is up. In a carefree mood, he let it be known that he had no immediate intention to "locate at the other end of Pennsylvania avenue" (i.e. in Congress). Perhaps, he said, there would be a vacancy in the municipal government of Northampton, Mass. It was as a Northampton city councilman that President Coolidge entered politics 28 years...
...investigators reported to the Senate that there was "not one scintilla of evidence" that Senators Borah, LaFollette, Norris and Heflin had been paid, or even offered one cent. The Mexican Government pronounced Mr. Hearst's documents total forgeries. The Senate Committee proceeded therefore to try to find out who did the forging and why. To this end U. S. Secret Service men were called in. The investigators also sought evidence of the messages and money supposed to have been telegraphed from Mexico to Consul General Elias. Such evidence, to prove the validity of Hearst-published documents, was lacking. Investigation...
...just raised its chief executive's pay. Psychiatry has become a resort of criminal defense. Sometimes it is invoked falsely, in desperation; sometimes honestly, with justice. Judges invariably require expert advice when scientific evidence is introduced. The Smith plan would require judges to conduct trials, juries to find guilt or innocence, experts to make punishments fit crimes. Designed to promote accuracy, the plan would make for harshness quite as often as for leniency. "The power of the judge to sentence to death has done more than anything else to prevent convictions for murder in the first degree," Governor Smith...
...morning of December 29 will find the musicians on their way to Montreal, which they reach at noon. A children's concert is to be given in the afternoon, as well as the evening entertainment; both are to be held in Windsor Hall. The club will disband after this performance...