Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the publication of the results of the Herald-Tribune national driving survey coming shortly on the heels of the Crimson poll, it is interesting to compare the sentiments of the country at large with that of the undergraduate body. In both instances uniform traffic laws among states, and stricter driving tests were warmly urged. Although the College favoured compulsory insurance, the national sentiment gave it fourth ranking--probably seeing in it another manifestation of the "tax" goblin. As was to be expected, both groups condemned marking of offender's cars, and "governors". The former bears with it the taint...
Student opinion at Harvard and seven other northeastern colleges follows the trend at large for their district in support of measures for automobile traffic reform...
...course there are only two basic ideas about liquor, wet and dry. If anyone expected the Anti-Saloon League to change its fundamental idea" that intoxicating beverages are harmful, dangerous and habit-forming, and therefore the traffic therein should be suppressed, they were of course disappointed. As for new ideas about how to advocate the cause of sobriety TIME itself referred to the new songs introduced at St. Louis, and the press associations considered the plan of home talent dramas developed by the Anti-Saloon League sufficiently new to give the story nationwide circulation. Also there was the new idea...
...Calif., Rose Bowl (see p. 43) when he received a telegram from Secretary of the Texas Senate Robert ("Bob") Barker stating that Acting Governor Wilbourne Collie had called a special session of the legislature. Indignant, Governor Allred summoned a police escort to get through the football crowd, fumed when traffic blocked his car, clambered on the back of a motorcycle, fumed when traffic blocked the motorcycle, hopped off, hurried on foot to his hotel. While packing to board a plane, he learned that the Secretary of the Senate had been joking...
Remaining two issues on the ballot, government crop control and automobile traffic, will be discussed the following weeks, while it is planned to distribute further sets of ballots during the succeeding months...