Word: states
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frost. It was a States reporter who last June unearthed the scandal in Louisiana's administration that sent President James Monroe Smith of Louisiana State University to prison, and so far has brought four other convictions in New Orleans alone on charges of fraud. One day Reporter Meigs Frost (who once got honorable mention for a Pulitzer Prize) heard that WPA materials from the University's carpentry shops were going into a private home at Metairie, a rich New Orleans suburb in adjoining Jefferson Parish...
With Louisiana in an uproar and Federal investigators hastening down from Washington, the Item abandoned Huey's followers to their fate. Suddenly the Item came out with an editorial platform calling for punishment of "all who have stolen from State and Federal Governments," rigid State economy, honest elections. Next day, in an editorial headed At Long Last, the States sarcastically welcomed the Item "to the fold of those who are battling to save Louisiana from political racketeers, political thieves and corruptionists...
...fortnight U. S. college fraternities held their annual interfraternity conference in Manhattan. The delegates had a few headaches. Fraternities found it harder these days to fill their expensive houses, make ends meet. The burgeoning of new house plans in private Eastern colleges, the current revival of dormitory building in State universities made their own houses less dazzling. At Wisconsin, dormitories had gone so far as to take over a time-honored fraternity function: they gave their boys instruction in table manners...
...fraternity men proceeded to pass resolutions: condemning Hell Week (initiation week) shenanigans, deploring "recent lapses from good taste on the part of certain fraternity chapters that have lent themselves to pictorial exploitation." Elected president of the National Undergraduate Interfraternity Council was a model boy, Michigan State's Arthur Howland, a student who is working his way through college by leading a dance band...
Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary is old enough to be remembered with horror by Dickens in his American Notes (1842). It was known then, as now, as the Cherry Hill prison. One night last week, over Philadelphia's KYW, the inmates of 110-year-old Cherry Hill staged their Christmas musicale. Sixteen pent-up voices serenaded The Little Man Who Wasn't There; assorted whistlers, fiddlers, ladybug plunkers whanged away at heart strings beyond the walls. But the tune that dampened the eyes of Warden Herbert ("Cap") Smith and beefy Deputy Tom Meikrantz was a Chinese prisoner...