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...easier way of getting through college, and in our own offices we have found that only one out of 20 graduates of the school makes good. Judging from its graduates, Editor Williams thought that the University of Missouri was turning out the best newsmen. Headlines Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of the President's Commission on law-enforcement begged the editors to stand firmly behind the Prohibition laws so long as they remained on the statute books. No newsman. Chairman Wickersham exhibited special interest in the task of the green-visored copyreaders who write a newspaper's headlines. "Saving...
Next day Chairman Wickersham might have observed that the tone of headlines largely reflects the particular tenets of the journal which it adorns. Across the top of an account of his speech carried in the dripping-Wet New York Herald Tribune was blazoned...
...Mitchell's potent objection to this bill?without which, it was conceded, machinery for juryless liquor trials can hardly be set up?served to squash the chances of any immediate legislation carrying out this prime recommendation of the Wickersham Commission. The Attorney General had strongly supported the Wickersham proposal when, as a theory, it was first presented. Now. when it was being shaped up into a legislative reality, he apparently saw its larger implications...
Recently they heard that the U. S. has a thing called "The National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement." Excited, they despatched to Chairman George Woodward Wickersham last week a request that his Commission work for ''enforcement of the laws which Mississippi and other Southern States broke" when they repudiated their debts to British holders of Confederate bonds...
...bond does not die," wrote the B. C. F. B. to Mr. Wickersham. "The repudiation was and is unconstitutional from the Federal and State viewpoints and the matter can never be finally closed while the bonds remain unredeemed. In the case of the State the stigma of repudiation is perpetuated during the existence of the dishonored issue which bears the seal of its sovereignty. If a State be part of the Federal Union a reflection is cast upon the protective sovereignty which encircles...