Word: sane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Wesley Disney of Oklahoma proposed a bill in Congress last month which provides for a National Academy of Public Affairs. This bill is now being considered by the Committee on Education, and deserves careful attention by all those in America who are interested in good government and sane spending of municipal, state and federal funds. Billions of dollars collected from the taxpayers are spent annually by the public officers. Disposition of questions ranging from relations with nations abroad to the construction of a new sewage system is in their hands. The Government now can control the price of wheat...
...that the smoke, thunder, and hard-feeling caused by the reorganization plans for the Student Council has calmed down and the new constitution is on the way to being adopted, it is possible to make a sane estimate of the position which the Council should hold in Harvard College...
...Party is theoretically opposed to capital punishment and is actually and vehemently an enemy of black men because they are a source of cheap labor. Labor members of the Australian House of Representatives ignited a blaze of protest against the execution of Old Ludwig. To Labor the ''Sane Government" coalition of Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons replied that capital punishment is Australia's law, sharply adding that Labor seemed to want one law for blacks, another for whites. Finally the Government Ministers pointed out the fact that for reasons unknown to anybody but himself, Old Ludwig...
...will be gone over with a fine tooth comb, their stand on the stump will be carefully questioned and clucidated. The autumn elections will have a real story to tell. Legislative berths are regarded as warm and comfortable ones by other people besides the present occupants, and applicants with sane ideas about education are going to win great support...
...LAWRENCE OF ARABIA - Charles Edmonds - Applet on-Century ($1.50). A sane but unenlightening resume of Lawrence's life, pieced out from letters and other sources where Lawrence himself skimped...