Word: rulings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Albert E. Sartain, onetime warden of the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, was registered at the institution last week for a sojourn of 18 months as a guest of the Government. He had been found guilty of violating a house rule when he had been there as manager in 1924, accepting tips from the guests-$10,500 worth-in exchange for soft berths. His present manager-host, Warden John W. Snook, saw to it that he was outfitted with a costume which will be inconspicuous so long as he remains within, and despatched him to the entresol where he was given...
...deaths, the poor scholastic standing of 200 student automobile owners and the threat to Princeton's traditional seclusion latent in roadsters capable of reaching bright-lit cities in two hours of the day or night, moved Dean Christian Gauss to ask the senior council to pass a prohibitive ruling. He asked twice. The council took no action. It had passed a rule last spring requiring parental permission for student motors. Cars were not allowed to enter the campus. The council believed that was sufficient prohibition. Dean Gauss went to the university trustees and the prohibition was soon published...
...Crimson track mentor found four out of the five innovations sane and commendable. Three of these changes in the rulings had to do with the hurdle events. The point was made at the convention that a runner who knocks down most of his hurdles suffered a sufficient handicap for not clearing them cleanly, so it was voted to do away with the rule disqualifying a hurdler for upsetting the barriers. A false start in a hurdle event has hither to been penalized by setting the runner back a yard. It was decided, however, that this penalty was too sever...
Three days later, the Senate refused to apply the closure rule on his bill. The result: the Boulder Dam project is likely to be doomed this session. The question asked by many: what is the Boulder...
Unfit for public rule or private care...