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...tart public letter by him on the human equation in safety at sea. Excerpt : "The general unrest in the maritime labor field is a matter of common knowledge. Conditions under which so-called able seamen and lifeboat men certificates are issued are known to make possible, if not encourage, flagrant fraud. How can we . . . hope that underpaid, overworked officers will be able to maintain real discipline...
...summary action taken by President Roosevelt in abandoning the Passamaquoddy tide-harnessing project and the Florida ship canal would seem to smack more strongly of political expediency than of any impelling reason for their desertion. Even though it be acknowledged that the Florida project was a flagrant instance of boon-doggling, necessitated by the need of spending so much money within a given time and within such and such a place, the "Quoddy" project has been praised by engineers and might possibly have been developed on a scale with the Boulder Dam, Grande Coulce and other highly successful New Deal...
...most important duties of the Student Council is the management of elections, and any new constitution should attempt to correct the more flagrant abuses of the system. Much of the inefficiency of Senior elections in the past has been due to the multiplicity of polling-places, and one central station for all voting should be established. This could be watched over efficiently by the two Junior committeemen, and the dangers previously encountered in scattered voting would be almost nullified...
...Amendment to the Constitution: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. . . . Last week Old Guardsman James W. Wadsworth of New York leaped up in the House to charge the Black Committee with flagrant violation of that safeguard. This...
...Republican New York Herald Tribune, which lashed out: "To snap an informal photograph of the President at the moment that he happens to be rubbing his nose and then to publish it over captions implying that the attitude reveals weariness of spirit, despair or silence under attack is as flagrant a piece of misreporting as it would be to distort the clear meaning of his reply to a press-conference question...