Word: must
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cell intended for one. Some live in the hallways. Then come the riots among the prisoners. Our next step is to build more prisons-and so I ask you what will the end be? Are we reducing crime? Many of your readers must have opinions upon this subject and I therefore propose that they be invited to express them. I'm wondering whether the public is really interested or are they too busy in their mad rush watching the ticker in Wall Street, or worrying how to provide funds to pay the next installment on the new car! Perhaps...
...abandon that alien "tycoon" thing. Even TIME cannot pluck it from its comic opera setting in the mind of the English speaking world, and give it adequacy or dignity, by all too frequent use. Is good old United States so poverty stricken that you must lug this in? It grates-ugh! H. VAN ANTWERP Farmers...
...first place the direct primary must be blamed. It is an outrageous form of government, a deviation from the representative form of government in which the U. S. was founded. The direct primary* was passed because of the influence of Theodore Roosevelt and Senators Borah and Johnson. Among its other results, it has put in the United States Senate the worst group of men we have ever had there in the history of our country...
Next day Acting Mayor Walmsley declared: "Anarchy must cease." In answer two street cars were dynamited. Labor leaders called upon the Council to apologize, to repudiate Gus Williams as a "red." The Council proclaimed the attack as "the most unheard of demonstration in the history of the city," ordered more policemen recruited...
...against Public Service, Inc. Riots and sabotage followed the importation of strikebreakers (TIME, July 15). Through New Orleans streets rattled and clanked hundreds of nondescript "taxicabs" ready to carry for 10? a public out of sympathy with the trolley company. A New Orleans ordinance provides that all such conveyances must first post a $5,000 indemnity bond, a requirement which few if any of the taxi operators could or would meet. Last week the City Council prepared to enforce the ordinance, with the almost certain prospect of putting the taxis out of business, of forcing the public back...