Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, Editor Adams had little success in stimulating either of the Senators Watson or Robinson, or Governor Jackson to start an investigation of "super-government" in Indiana. Last week Mr. Adams threatened to force the calling of a special session of the Indiana Senate to consider the impeachment of Governor Jackson, if he was not allowed to interview D. C. Stephenson. Later in the week, Prosecutor Will H. Remy, who had sent Mr. Stephenson to jail, called for a grand jury investigation of Indiana's grime...
...Couldn't Say No-Florence Moore slaps a sluggish affair into a smart success...
...Peter's waiting list. We admire King Arthur, who gave Anglia a good administration and checked the Saxon crime wave more than Sir Galahad who went off by himself to catch a glimpse of the Holy Grail, although the latter achieved what we prize above all else, Success...
Granted the possible weakness of American law forces; granted the success of those of England; not granted, however, that the American criminal--especially of the bandit gunman genre--is the average criminal. Perhaps even the Liverpool police would be some what disconcerted, if stationed, for instance, in Cicero, III. In Cicero men are not only men: they are gunmen. And similarly in other communities--in bloody Herrin, in Canton, and of course in the metropolitan centers. It would and it will when the time comes--take a better system than the present one to wipe out the invisible ring...
These, figures should be instrumental in dispelling the belief that American colleges are leading their youths to wrack and ruin, if the public does not take the view that college men are more successful in the pursuit of crime as in other occupations--and judging from the prevalent idea of the lack of correlation between "college man" and "success", this should not be the case. Indeed, the average graduate may have become so supersaturated with the confinement imposed by the four year away of his Alma Mater that he takes particular pains not a subject himself...