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Further evidence of the eminence which the No. 1 underworldling of the U. S. has been allowed to attain in the free and breezy No. 2 city of the land came out last fortnight. Newspapers on election morning contained this story: Chief Justice John P. McGoorty of the city's criminal court, in charging the November Grand Jury, had revealed that "overtures" had been made both to him and to the State's Attorney's office by an emissary of Capone. The proposition was that if the police would promise not to interfere with Capone's liquor trade, Capone would...
...Fosdick benign, sage, well-loved father of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick-"Timalysed" in your issue of Oct. 6, was for years (28) principal of Hasten Park High School {Continued on p. 12) in Buffalo. He showed many an adolescent striveling the way to learn, to live, to attain. . . . Never was "Pop" Fosdick, Superintendent of the Buffalo Schools, as you state erroneously on p. 71. N. B. I believe his father held the office of Superintendent of Schools for a time...
...Sharkey-Campolo affair and that little detail cleared up the Iliad. He even attempted to get into the mood of the Greek drama but-somewhere or other he has learned that the needy catchword for the theatre of Sophocles is "simplicity." He tried, yes and diligently, but whoever could attain quiet and simplicity amid the thundering cement-grinders, seemingly banal excavations, and unutterable chaos mixed with modern Georgian architecture which has flooded the Cantabrigtan shores? His advice is to take "The New Criterion," and call...
...only at the polls. The parties exist for another purpose, difficult though it may be to ascertain that purpose. Twenty-nine new supporters have found their way into the sacred halls of justice down Washington way. According to the prognostications of local experts the wet candidate in Massachusetts should attain a comfortable majority in November. In the west, Senator Walsh of Montana, with a brilliant career while wrapped in the toga, faces quite likely defeat by an inferior candidate, purely because the latter is wringing wet. Rolph of California will bear a moist gubernatorial standard to victory against...
...full of information as an encyclopedia, as systematic in the organization and conduct of his courses as a railroad time table, yet if he is wholly without the urge to investigation and does nothing to stimulate scholarly or scientific ambition in his students, he can never attain the position of ranking professor...