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...been a close personal friend and ally of the Board of Education's Democratic President George Joseph Ryan. Democratic Superintendent O'Shea has often been pleased to call him "my right arm." Accepting the general estimate of Superintendent-designate Campbell as a person able man of considerable vigor and administrative competence, New Yorkers wondered whether he would prove more progressive than retiring Superintendent O'Shea, whose regime has by no means satisfied educational idealists. In 1928 he protested a birth-control exhibit at a city Parents' Exposition. Year after that he closed a high-school auditorium...
...statement Governor Rolph showed his understanding of one significant fact. The lynching was not simply an act of vengeance, it was a contemptuous dismissal of lawyer-made criminal law; the mob showed its impatience with a legal procedure that makes criminals odds-on favorites over this law with encouraging vigor and finality...
...their rally held just before the Yale game, the freshmen gathered in large numbers under the Union antlers, shouted with middlewestern vigor, and demonstrated an enthusiasm which bore tangible fruit in a 31-6 victory over Yale. As a result there have been suggestions that the pep meeting, having had such salutary effect upon the first year athletes, might well be repeated for the benefit of the varsity...
Among the various exhibitions of violence in the day's news, two items stand out above the rest. Down in the pleasant, palm-strewn island of Cuba, a native brand of hell burst out in full vigor as civil war recommenced on a sizeable scale. The fight centered about the several armories, police-station, and forts which dot the mainland; gunboats fought it out with land batteries, machine-guns with snipers, while General Batiste directed his troops with aplomb from the depths of his armored car. Perhaps the most discouraging detail of the whole mess is that there seems...
...thing, however, is certain. Even in Boston, there is a glorious opportunity to "turn the rascals out," to elect a man of vigor, honesty, and political intelligence. The Boston decision will be one of the closest in history no matter which way it goes. The politically-minded Irish, strange to say, are more than partial to the two best candidates, Parkman and Mansfield. If the voters use their chance stupidly or do not use it at all Boston will probably go bankrupt, higher taxes will drive still more large firms into the suburbs. More pathetic, welfare and city workers will...