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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such an impression is highly unfortunate, and strenuous measures of some kind should certainly be taken to correct it. Yet it seems hardly fair to put the blame wholly upon individuals, when the sweeping generality of the complaint is in itself proof that the fault lies rather with the institution. Obviously, men are being sent from the Law School out into the legal world with no knowledge of the truly important functions of the lower courts and a consequent lack of respect for the Bench...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LESSER LEGAL LIGHTS | 1/28/1930 | See Source »

...similarity of the figures on the use of the Reading Room with those of 1929 should be definite proof of one thing. The use of the library during the two weeks preceding Midyear Examinations is practically the same as that of last year. There has been no such sudden decrease as that evidenced in the large discrepancy of the statistics of last year with those compiled during the installation of the new plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEARY WIDENER BLUES | 1/28/1930 | See Source »

...Brucker, to investigate the State's enforcement officers for negligence in executing the State Prohibition Act, with its minimum mandatory jail sentence of one year for first offenders. Likewise he prepared to secure the necessary appropriations to equip his State police on Prohibition enforcement duty with three bullet-proof automobiles, a dozen bullet-proof vests, six Thompson machine guns, a large supply of tear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mercy in Michigan | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...recital, with color prints, of how Color entered Industry (in cash registers, kodaks, planes, pens, skyscrapers), including optical proof that the Great White Way is no longer white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fortune | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

Proper ventilation and ability to study are so closely allied that considerable expenditure would be justified in trying to rectify the unfortunate conditions in the library. The number of protests is an ample proof that the present conditions are not only unsatisfactory, but also extremely annoying. In a University that has the largest endowment in the country there surely should be sufficient funds somewhere to provide for some relief from this highly annoying feature of the library. Preparation for examinations is unpleasant enough without the addition of totally unnecessary hindrances. F. T. Leahy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/16/1930 | See Source »

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