Word: norfolkers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Regarding the investigation of the Norfolk Prison Administration, as a result of which a hearing will be held on Tuesday, March 6. Professor Warner emphatically stated that Howard B. Gill '13 was "the best prison administrator in the whole state of Massachusetts." He characterized Mr. Gill as an able, honest, and enthusiastic man. "Mr. Gill is an idealist, and is interested in saving the souls of men. His only fault was that he was not interested in paper work, and should have had a capable deputy to control this part of the prison's affairs...
Four members of the Harvard faculty were included on a committee of ten citizens who met with Governor Ely this week in support of Howard B. Gill '13, now under fire in the investigation of the Norfolk Prison Administration. The professors who discussed conditions at the prison with the Governor were William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity; Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology; Kendrick N. Marshall '21, Instructor in Government; and J. Anton de Haas '11, William Ziegler Professor of International Relationships...
...group of some 20 smaller Pennsylvania banks. In the industrial wing he is a director of Aluminum Co., Gulf Oil, Koppers Co. and Carborundum Co. He has a director's vote in such minority Mellon interests as Pullman, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Westinghouse Air Brake, Harbison-Walker Refractories, Norfolk & Western. Last week he was seeking I. C. C. approval (which will probably be denied) of his recent election to the board of Pennsylvania Railroad. Only notable omission from his roster of directorships is Pittsburgh Coal Co., in which the voting Mellon is Andrew's only son Paul...
Speaking before an audience of young men and women of the Young Friends' Discussion Group in Phillips Brooks House last night, Russell G. Olsen '36 placed blame for the mishandling of the Norfolk situtation squarley on the shoulders of Francis X. Hurley '34, State Auditor, and on the Boston Herald and Traveler, Olsen asserted that prison officials should be under the Civil Service Commission...
...data on the Norfolk controversy are available to anyone. The prison has been open to visitors since Mr. Gill became superintendent; last month W. Cameron Forbes wrote a careful and scholarly report on Norfolk and Mr. Gill's administration. Yet the published report of an eminent public official has been ignored, and press leaks on an unpublished report, made by the State Auditor, have furnished the material for a wild newspaper campaign, although no charge made by the Auditor has been proved and although the Auditor was forbidden by Governor Ely to release any advance publicity on his findings...