Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Governor Miller proclaiming that New York City must be made a "safe place to live in" and the daily press echoing with the announcement that in the last 98 days there have been 91 murders in the Metropolitan district, the so-called "Crime Wave" is with us again. Is it the effect of the post-war reaction, reflecting general world wide lawlessness as a result of renewed acquaintance with the automatic? Are there laws enough at present against crime, or is the present machinery adequate to enforce them? Does the flaring publicity attendant on each daring hold-up serve...
...ventures. Americans are notoriously stingy about any expenditure that savours in the least of public service, and correspondingly extravagant in satisfying the private wants; but thorough going support of the police is one part of the public service that cannot wait. It is one thing to talk about Crime Waves and their origins in idleness and unemployment, which will come to an end when "business picks up a bit"; but the most effective means of preventing any such wave from becoming permanent is by providing the machinery of the law with adequate funds...
...installed. Another difficulty with the execution of the project is the unusual amount of radio interference. For a long time, this been a problem in the amateur field and an attempt has just been made to rectify it. A conference to try to arrange a new amateur wave length was called at Washington yesterday by Mr. Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, and it should result in lessening the congested system...
...moral is obvious. If we are to become a country of picture-lovers our museums must be gradually emptied. Let the Metropolitan in New York sell The Old Lady Paring Her Nails for $1,000,000, and all the city will flock to wave her bon voyage. Or let our own Fogg Museum close out stock, beginning with one of the Venetian masters. The Economics Department, meeting in Holden Chapel, would yield the New Lecture Hall to the votaries of the Arts...
...citizen communication could be conducted throughout Canada and the United States that there was a chance that we might reach out and include the British Isles. This seemed altogether to much to many who had not followed the wonderful scientific perfection to which the amateur had developed his short wave apparatus. But the amateur organization appropriated $1000 and sent the most skillful listener living. Mr. Paul F. Godley, one of their number to England last November, with the most sensitive apparatus possible to get together. Mr. Godley searched for a promising location, and finally located at the little town...