Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About Prohibition, Governor Ritchie was not nearly so outspoken as Senator Reed. The Ritchie point is states' rights; the Reed, political rancor. Yet it was after the Ritchie speech that Toastmaster Davis saw fit to depart from routine to "restore harmony." The U. S. people, said he, were divided in three classes, not two, on Prohibition?the third being "those who believe the present law is the best way to deal with this great governmental experiment, at present...
...Communist Party (TIME, Dec. 26) were further expelled, last week, from the Union Central Executive Committee or acting legislature of the Soviet Union. Expulsion was voted unanimously by the 21 members of the potent Presidium or Standing Committee, which held that: "Persons expelled from the Communist Party are not fit to be members of the legislature." A similar act in the U. S. would be for the Republican Party (having suppressed all other parties) to expell from Congress even the "Insurgent Republicans...
TIME, Dec. 26, p. 11: "The Smith plan would require . . . experts to make punishments fit crimes." Has not the trend of criminological thought for at least the past 50 years been toward emphasizing the offender rather than an isolated act, the crime, in determining punishment? All recent developments in the field of penology (i.e. the indeterminate sentence, probation, parole and the reformatory) have been in this direction. Is it possible that Governor Smith's proposal, which you hailed as "a departure almost as notable in criminology as was the substitution of vaccine for leeches in the treatment of smallpox...
...representative specialists from which a board of correction might be chosen: Dean Roscoe Pound, Judge Julian W. Mack, Dr. George W. Kirchway, Hon. B. G. Lewis, Dr. Bernard Glueck, Dr. W. A. White, Dr. Herman M. Adler, Dr. William Healy. Do any of these believe in punishments to fit crimes? I believe...
...them. But, with the seventy-first anniversary of the birth of Woodrow Wilson at hand, Dr. George McLean Harper, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton and foreman of the essay-judging jury, was obliged to announce that not one of the essays submitted was, in substance or style, "fit to be published without embarrassment and submitted to the critical judgment of educated men and women...