Word: miriam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Massachusetts is on trial!" This snatch of rhetoric would up both the final remarks of Dr. Miriam Van Waters' attorney last Tuesday, and the next-to-last stage in the case of Commissioner of Correction Elliott McDowell versus the head of the Women's Reformatory at Framingham. The final decision now rests with Dean Griswold of the Law School and the other members of governor Dever's newly-appointed commission and although Massachusetts may or may not be on trial, many of its citizens have a seething concern in the Van Waters affair...
...Waters case, to the intense relief of the entire Commonwealth. For many months, the public has been treated to a vicious series of incredible attacks in the press upon a woman who is undoubtedly one of the greatest social workers in the United States. Following these attacks, Miriam Van Waters was dismissed on January 11 as superintendent of the Women's Reformatory at Framingham by her superior, Commissioner of Correction McDowell. She demanded --and got--a special hearing to clear her record, but under a strange sort of law, this hearing was conducted before the Commissioner himself. McDowell was therefore...
...public hearing on the dismissal of Dr. Miriam Van Waters as head of the Massachusetts Women's Reformatory ended today as her attorney, Claude B. Cross, demanded her reinstatement...
George B. Rowell, Massachusetts Assistant Attorney-General, revoked WHRV's permission Thursday to broadcast the entire proceedings of the Miriam Van Waters hearings, WHRV officials stated yesterday...
...MIRIAM C. MALOY Berkeley, Calif...