Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January 1936 Lawyer Newton Diehl Baker was appointed by the American Bar Association chairman of a committee of lawyers to meet with a committee of editors (under Stuart Perry of the Adrian, Mich. Telegram) and a committee of publishers (under Paul Bellamy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer) to "agree upon standards of publicity of judicial proceedings and methods of obtaining an observance of them. . . ." The 18 members met twice, communicated often. Groundwork for the final report, considered at the A. B. A. convention at Kansas City this week, was a report which the A. B. A.'s Special Committee...
...Cleveland, Ohio Spitzer, Joseph B. 18 150 5.11 Cambridge Latin Cambridge Thayer, Philip 18 167 5.10 Milton Academy Worcester Thomson, George G. Jr. 18 172 6. St. Mark's New York City Tibbetts, Walter I. Jr. 18 210 6. Choato Winchendon Tyng, William W. 18 160 5.9 Kent Jamaica Plain Witmer, William B. 19 170 5.9 So. Pasadena High Pasadena, Calif. CENTERS Burnham, Amory E. 19 155 5.10 Groton Bolton Dietz, Sheldon 17 185 6.2 Boston Latin Brookline Duff, Levi B. IV 18 155 5.10 Ben Avon High Ban Avon, Pa. Foster, Walter H. Jr. 17 165 5.11 Belmont Hill...
...What difference does it make if Hugo Black is a uniformed Kluxer? ... It was plain from his record that he is a born witch-burner-narrow, prejudiced and class-conscious. ... To suggest that the President did not know these traits is to belittle not only Mr. Roosevelt's splendid intelligence, but also his fine inbred instincts. ... A candidate even for district judge is investigated for weeks by G-men. But Black's appointment to the Supreme Court was not even referred to the Department of Justice. The President may not have known the general Washington belief...
HEYDAY IN A VANISHED WORLD-Stephen Bonsai-Norton ($3.50). Another newspaperman's Personal History, antedating the days of Sheean, Farson, Gunther, Duranty. As reporter for the New York Herald under James Gordon Bennett. Bonsai interviewed Parnell, saw Arthur James Balfour, Clemenceau, Briand plain and young...
...thing. Recruiting for the band or the football team or for the advertisement of the college is quite another. When the work of a college representative in the field is honest, when it is guidance, and not exploitation, he has a useful function to perform. But the evidence is plain, beyound dispute--only too often has recruiting degenerated into attempts to fill the beds in the dormitories by any means, fair or foul...