Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Crime Commission of New York State (Caleb H. Baumes, chairman) has lately wrought upon U. S. penal codes the most signal changes of the decade. The Baumes grading of punishments for repeated felonies, topped off by life imprisonment for a fourth conviction regardless of degree, has been the model...
Politics itself is supposed to be a school. Few politicians endeavor to better themselves by formal study in midcareer. Washington newsgatherers last week pointed with pride to burly U. S. Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York, onetime (1907-10) Harvard footballer and cum laude student, upon discovering last fortnight...
It was also pointed out that on account of this the organizations supported by the fund will be forced to carry on their activities under severe financial embarrassment unless the rate at which the returns are reaching the Budget Committee increases markedly after the vacation.
The President pointed out that the Mississippi's right-of-way through the flooded states was a liability as well as an asset. He recommended that the flooded states be required to pay for as large a portion of the flood control program as possible, in common justice and to...
* The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment pointed out that Mr. Kresge's stores sell wine kegs, wine presses, decanters, cocktail shakers and glasses, bottling and corking machines.