Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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"-is it possible that this proposal is based on the outworn and unsatisfactory principle of the Dark Ages ? I believe...
...year period, going as silently as they came, those vague and shadowy Dickensian figures who receive their degrees a half a year before or a half year later than their fellows. Celebrated by no flourish of a sheriff's stick or the beating hoofs of the Governor's guard, still this bestowal of diplomas means much to the ideal who are willing to date obscurity to attain it: it is only just to grace their departure with a single token of remembrance. Akin as they are to the useless unfortunates who are designated with a cabalistic ocC., the time...
...action of a radio, or psycho-analysis is no more intelligent than their belief in the efficacy of a saint's bones or the spices from a mummy. And one wonders if the burners of witches were more concerned with the problems of demonology, than the troubled Governor of New York will be with those of psychology in considering during the next week the case of Ruth Snyder, sentenced to burn by the consumption of amperes rather than fagots...
...emotional abnormality," glibly states her lawyer in his plea for elemency. It is said that the defence of young Hickman will be virtually the same, in his instance the abnormality being sadism. These two cases, together with the shocking acquittal of bootlegger Remus, seem a perfect justification of Governor Smith's plan for a board of criminologists and psychiatrists who might make disposal of all convicted criminals. It would remove the perplexing scientific problems from the hands of ignorant juries, and yet the dangerous tendency towards leniency would persist as the experts became bogged in the theories of behaviorism. Thus...
...Governor Smith's position as a potential nominee seems to be still somewhat clouded, and if cannot bue be regretted that the Wet issue seems to be still dangerously entangled with religious prejudice. This aspect of the problem, always in the foreground, but heretofore rather problematical in its significance, has recently taken a more definite shape, and where anti-Catholic prejudice seemed to have been some what alloyed, it is now logical to expect that this factor will again come into prominence. A recent editorial in Osservatore Romano, the official mouthpiece of the Vatican, is reported as being an attack...