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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them are Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), killer of his common law wife, now chief of the convict fire department; Clara Phillips, who killed a lady intimate of her husband with a hammer; famed Thomas J. Mooney and Warren Billings, sent up for life from San Francisco on evidence since found to be perjured. Currently famed is Mrs. Frances Leano, for whom San Quentin can provide no maternity ward for her soon-expected needs. She may have to be given a pardon...
Concluded Privy Seal Jim: "I have found no magic remedy for unemployment"-and it was all too evident that he had not. On the other hand neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives wanted to bring down the Labor Government on the unemployment issue last week, so amid much grumbling the House voted a resolution enabling Mr. Thomas to go ahead with his plans. Sharpest criticism came from burly James Maxton, leader of the extreme Left Laborite faction. After flaying the Government for "compromising with Capitalism" and not daring to seek the straight Socialist solution of nationalizing industry, he roared: "Some...
...bested by them. In 1898, a Junior at Amherst, he was troubled by his father's business failure, but got himself an assistant instructorship in public speaking and worked his way through his Senior year. In Chicago, where he went to work (for $10 weekly) for Western Electric, he found that his address, chosen for cheapness, excited criticism; further discovered that he had innocently selected a room in one of the Loop's worst dives. Solution: He moved, paid more rent, still made his $10 serve. In 1907 came a really major trouble. Summoned to Manhattan to be assistant...
...held for a knowledge of one particular field. His interest in that work is greatly stimulated. When undergraduates and professors are associated in a like activity their intimacy is inevitable; and this in turn leads to a common intellectual interest and a common place of work. Here may be found an atmosphere where minds may grow, and, "by attrition," to repeat President Lowell's words, "provoke one another." Daily Californian...
...eastern undergraduate need not become too self-laudatory in his new found mental balance. It has been the constant stiffening of faculty requirements that has driven him into scholastic work to a degree undreamed of by a previous college generation. When it becomes necessary to devote the greater part of one's time to serious pursuits, then unstinted enthusiasm in football must decline...