Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...challenge of crime to which he owes his office. The murderer of Gambler Rothstein remained at large; for every speakeasy closed, many remained prosperously open; the city's purlieus were by no means disinfected. Mr. Whalen made threats against 996 "nests of crime" listed in a recent police report. At the Chelsea Methodist Church he declared his opinion that "known criminals have no Constitutional rights." He also blurted out that any who questioned his methods "are not good citizens...
...disposition of the new housing units finds many faults with the details of the Student Council plan, as might be expected when an authority views the suggestions of laymen. The objections, however, deal with the superficial aspects of the plan, and seem to find no fault with the report's basic idea of a more or less cloistered second Yard...
...plan for the development of the region between Mount Auburn Street and the Charles River should be considered which is not the result of long study, and of planning ahead for the future," writes Chairman Pond. After stating its hypothesis of a new and second Yard, the Council report reads, "The plan attached is merely a rough sketch intended to portray the Council's ideas. It does not pretend to be final or entirely accurate. The whole scheme should be gone over by competent architectural and landscape advisors. It is the basic idea which we consider sound." By advancing...
...effort to present a satisfactory solution of the controversial location of units. A competition for such a mammoth contract would draw forth valuable suggestions from a wide variety of competent sources. Such a procedure is the only way to procure the adequate consideration emphasized so strongly by both the report and the authoritative criticism...
...underlying object of the Report is evidently a second Yard. In order to strengthen then this idea the Council advanced a plan of its own for the new building program. But this could only be a corollary to the project of the Yard, and as long as the new Houses are not arranged so as to disrupt the area entirely as an entity the undergraduate plea will be answered. If the idea behind the whole House plan prevents a symmetrical arrangement and a harmonious architecture, there is no definite reason why one unit should stare placidly across a vista...