Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perovich. To U. S. Chief Justice William Howard Taft last week came a matter whose acquaintance he had first made as U. S. President in 1909. This was the case of Vuco Perovich, convicted of first degree murder in Alaska in 1905. After respites and appeals, President Taft saved Mr. Perovich from the gallows by commuting his sentence to life imprisonment...
Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts, who last fornight had somewhat curtly replied to a request that he appoint a committee of investigation with the statement that the matter was his responsibility to be investigated as he saw fit, last week, suddenly, surprisingly, did appoint exactly the kind of committee which he had been asked to name...
...President and to indicate the Administration's sympathy with flood sufferers. "The Mississippi can and must be controlled," said Secretary Davis. "The nation whose engineers built the Panama Canal despite seemingly insuperable obstacles can solve the . . . problem of flood control." He added that the solution was a matter for the next session of Congress to determine...
Five phases of the respite are considered in the report, which deals in turn with the matter of examinations, students' work during the reading periods, competitions and extra-curricular activities, tutorial work, and absence from Cambridge of students during the respite period...
...event seems to have been peculiarly unfortunate for the Russian government which seems to be placed between the Scylla of popular criticism at home and the Gharibdis of general disfavor abroad. To let the matter drop would probably not be satisfactory to those in Russia who feel that communism is being threatened. To press it would probably be to incur the hostility of the other nations who would inevitably regard the action as totally unwarranted. It is possible that the severity already threatened is no more than a beau geste for the benefit of Russian opinion, and that further action...