Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group of bootleggers in the State of Washington had been earning some $2,000,000 a year. Federal Prohibition agents obtained their conviction on evidence gained by tapping their telephone wires. The Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction and the bootleggers appealed to the Supreme Court. The only question to be decided by the Supreme Court was: Is the Fourth Amendment of the U. S. Constitution violated by using evidence obtained through wiretapping in a criminal case?*The Court answered...
Alexander Meiklejohn made the above confession last autumn at the opening of the Experimental College of the University of Wisconsin, in the presence of the 119 students who had registered. They were not a selected group. They had come voluntarily because they wanted to spend their first two college years under Dr. Meiklejohn and as a part of his experiment. They had heard of him as a liberal who had been forced to resign from the presidency of Amherst College (in 1923). They knew that President Glenn Frank had brought him to Wisconsin because he was also a distinguished philosopher...
...Union Boat Club will send a group which includes five graduates and one undergraduate of the University in quest of rowing honors in the Royal Henley regatta on the Thames River, England, which will be held on July 4, 5, 6, and 7. They will sail from New York on the Majestic on June...
Geoffrey Platt '27, captain of last year's University crew, A. L. Hobson '24, G. H. Perkins '27, J. H. Harwood '27, Oliver Ames '27, and R. H. Miller '30 represent the Crimson in this group. Hobson was on the first crew in 1924, while Harwood rowed No. 3 on the second University last year and Perkins held a Jayvee seat...
...alumni of the College, that General Artemas Ward, class of 1748, was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental army, and that 245 of 1361 living graduates saw active war service. Fifteen percent of the graduate body at this time were known as loyalists or "Tories" with another group of 250 recognized as of patriot sympathies although unqualified for military duty...