Word: tration
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scent of corruption growing stronger, the hounds of public conscience began to break loose with an increasing halloo. Church, Press and Business set up a tremendous hue & cry directed against the entire city adminis- tration, but particularly against its dapper little Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker. Public feeling, which had smiled tolerantly at his wisecracks and philandering, which had overlooked his do- nothing policy on the unified transit problem and Unemployment conference, now flared up at what appeared to be culpable laxity. The Society for the Prevention of Crime urged Governor Roosevelt to invoke a little-known section...
...Passion v. Prudence" The prospect of the Progressive conference and its in- evitable criticism of the Hoover Adminis-tration gave the G. O. P. a touch of cold shivers. Day before the meeting the Republican National Committee, through its counsel, James Francis Burke, spoke de- fensively as follows: "The American people are already suffering from an overproduction of politics. . . . The whole country is now praying for political relief. So why not give politics a short recess? . . . Everyone must cool off and carry on. We must stop snarling and begin smiling. Sanity will then have more front seats and more front...
University of Idaho. Two years ago Frederick James Kelly, Dean of Adminis-tration of the University of Minnesota was imported by the University of Idaho (Moscow) to be its seventh president. With him President Kelly brought his good friend Irving Willard Jones, made him assistant president. Immediately thereafter friction began between President Kelly and the State Board of Education. President Kelly thought that Idaho should have a junior college, that the faculty should have more money. The Board thought that the junior college was a failure, that faculty salaries were secondary to the acquisition and upkeep of physical property, that...