Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Van Waters then demanded a final hearing before an "impartial board" which the Governor was required by law to choose. Besides Dean Griswold, Governor Dever appointed former Assistant Attorney General Robert G. Clark, Jr., and Mrs. Roger L. Putnam...
...Griswold commission said charges that Dr. Van Waters' administration had mishandled homosexuality in the reformatory were "wholly unproved." "In the very few instances where overt acts of homosexuality occurred ... prompt and effective steps were taken," the report stated...
While not endorsing Dr. Van Waters' interpretation of penal laws, the commission asserted that such things were "necessarily being done in many administrative organisms, both governmental and private...
...commission's decision ended a two-month battle between Dr. Van Waters and McDowell, her superior. Under a state statute, the reformatory super-intendant got a public hearing before the commissioner immediately following her dismissal. At the hearing's end, on February 8, McDowell, as judge, sustained his original findings against...
When the news of her victory reached Dr. Van Waters yesterday, she remarked that "the main task is to keep this great public interest which has been aroused functioning in constructive channels ... The great good is that the public has learned something about the needs and nature of the woman offender...