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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointment of a commission to review the Sacco-Vanzetti case, composed of President Lowell, President S. W. Stratton of M. I. T. and former Judge Robert Grant has already brought forth a storm of protest from such prominent men as T. J. Boynton, former attorney general of the Commonwealth and F. A. Goodwin, Registrar of Motor Vehicles. The former declared in an address to the alumni association of the Suffolk Law School that "there is absolutely no need for any fact finding commission in this case" and the latter declared that such action would be "a direct attack...
John Carter [TIME, May 9] is not a reporter, but the assistant editor of the [New York] Sunday Times Book Review. He is a contributor to various magazines as well as to the Forum, and his weekly critical articles in the Times make him at least as well known as any other writer of open letters. He has been in the American Diplomatic Service, he has written a book on international politics, and he specialized in history at Yale, both as an undergraduate and as a graduate student...
David Lloyd George (launching the serious Liberal attack upon the bill): "The details of this measure are dangerous and in some in stances obscure [proceeding to review them]. ... It is my final conviction that had this bill been law last year, it would not have shortened the General Strike by one hour...
...Appeal to College Presidents" in the May Review of Reviews, Hamilton Holt, liberal, President of Rollins College at Winter Park, Fla., let it be known that the professional taint has not yet been removed from athletics in southern colleges. Naively, he told of the money-enticed athletes whom he had ousted from Rollins College. Then he suggested a new solution...
...latest vagaries of the inexplicably unscholastic. Stuart, Sherman was one of the best of the second type a man whom Illinois University students revered as if he had been a combination of Doctor Johnson, Barrett Wendell and William Lyon Phelps, and whose directing of the Herald-Tribune Book Review endeared him to that dreadfully class conscious clan, the New York writing fraternity...