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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over 3000 spectators, one of whom at least took an active part in the ice battle, witnessed the contest, the first two periods of which produced the fastest brand of college hockey on record this season. Entering the final period at a grim deadlock McGill snapped up the defense and forged ahead, Doherty scoring a long surprise shot within two minutes after the start of the period. Stealing the top of the Crimson attack he streaked down the ice and sailed the puck past Morrill from the boards...
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...
During the week, Governor Smith was called "outstanding Democrat of his day" by Roland Sletor Morris, Wilsonian ambassador to Japan (1917-21), and controller of at least half of Pennsylvania's 76 nominating votes at the Democratic convention...
...greyhaired, busy-buzzing Gifford Pinchot, onetime (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania, will try to fill the vacancy. And when the seat of Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania comes up for election in November, able, redhaired, social-working Mrs. Gifford Pinchot will try to fill that vacancy. So, at least, rumored one Jane Randolph, Capitol newsgatherer, last week...
Fortunately-at least for such poor-proud folk-the French concept of a policeman's duty is paternal. It was so interpreted, last week, by M. Jean Chiappe, the Prefect of Police of Paris. With firm wisdom M. le Préfet ordered his gendarnes to take into custody every vagrant. Soon, in warm Paris jails, the needy were served hot soups and stews which they could accept without loss of honor. When the weather moderated they were released...