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...bill of Massachusetts State Senator Nicholson of Wareham to regulate the employment of state officials shows the antagouism now existing in governmental circles between politicians and political professors. Mr. Nicholson's proposal, if passed, will compel all officials receiving more than $3000 a year to devote their entire time to the state business. In the hearings of the legislative committee, Senator Nicholson has reference specifically to Professor Francis B. Sayre, of the Harvard Law School. Professor Sayre has recently been appointed state commissioner of correction. He has continued his university work and therefore falls into the category...
...arguments for the bill, Senator Nicholson has pointed out that this measure would tend to distribute state employment more widely. In this he is of course artfully neglecting to remember that there are many administrative positions in government which are best managed by men who are students and whose abilities for officacious service to the community consequently surpass by far those of short-haul politicians. It is unfortunate that the political life of an informed and able man is entirely in the hands of politicians who concentrate only on their present term of office with especial reference to its effect...
...need for the injection of at least a modicum of academic blood into the political system has been generally recognized, and seems to be, for the nonce, on the way to attention from those who hold the power of appointment. Such a measure as Senator Nicholson's represents a tawdry appeal to mass prejudice and will probably be defeated; if it is not, the movement toward an enlightened bureaucracy in Massachusetts will be set back many years...
...national commander of the Legion, took office at Indianapolis. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), grey-haired, autocratic Governor McNutt has an ambitious eye on the White House. A liberal, he favors a state income tax. repeal of the Indiana Dry Law, abolition of the Public Service Commission. Author Meredith Nicholson stagemanaged his outdoor inaugural...
That may account for some U. S. cases, thinks Miss Nicholson. Nonetheless, she and other students are convinced "that the primary cause of increased tuberculosis mortality among young women lies in biological rather than environmental factors. For physiological reasons which are not abnormal nor pathological in any way, young women are, always have been, and very likely will continue to be more susceptible to fatal tuberculosis than are other groups of the population...