Word: van
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Where are we getting? "The way I like to put it," Van Wagoner put it, "is we've got this automobile called democracy-see?-a car called democracy. We've put it here for these people to drive, and we've taught them how to drive, see? But their being able to drive doesn't mean there won't be accidents, does...
...Detroit. To this Bavaria, America has brought not only snack bars and jukeboxes but also a man who is easily the most interesting ruler the country has known since mad King Ludwig II. He is Murray D. van Wagoner, onetime Michigan state commissioner of roads, onetime governor of Michigan, today governor of Bavaria. A portly, ruddy-faced man with a kind of gruff charm, Van Wagoner engages in no such lunacies as Ludwig, who built bizarre stone castles all over Bavaria, and ended his life by jumping into a lake. Van Wagoner's castles are all built...
...Miriam Van Waters is now back at her job. The last two months, during which her record as superintendant of the State Reformatory for Women was overwhelmingly vindicated, has been an enlightening interruption in a brilliant career. As Dr. Van Waters herself said, the fight against Commissioner McDowell has been useful in making the public concerned about the problem of female delinquents. Dr. Van Waters treated inmates at the Framingham institution as students working patiently back into society. The Commissioner, on the other hand, considered transgressors as prisoners who had to be forced to respect...
Dwyer's performance as prosecutor was equally incredible. During the first hearing, when McDowell was the judge, Dwyer blithely put forth an Alice-in-Wonderland case, full of ghostly "evidence" and interesting inconsistencies. In spite of the vigorous protests of Dr. Van Waters' attorney, McDowell solemnly accepted his deputy's offerings, partly through his undeniable bias and partly through his lack of legal training...
Commissioner McDowell denied reports that the unfavorable decision would result in his resignation. "I have no intention of resigning," he said. McDowell was appointed by Governor Robert F. Bradford '23 in February, 1943. Dr. Van Waters has held her position since...