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...cause of Justice and the administration of the criminal law." But police officers, it is submitted, will always be tempted to resort to harsh questioning-not to obtain confessions for use as such in trials, but to get "leads" which will result in unearthing facts from which a chain of competent evidence can be woven...
...efficiency of these chain bakeries and the amount of territory they serve are, however, greater than those of their independent and smaller competitors, owing to their employing fleets of trucks for making rapid deliveries. Large-scale baking also makes possible many economies of operation in labor and material costs. How far mergers in the breadmaking field may go, no one can say. The field is apparently wide open. In another decade we may have a "Bread Trust" for fearless politicians to attack in election years...
...about 8 o'clock last night. The man pointed a gun at the Law Student, and asked for all that he had. At first Selden thought the matter a joke but when he saw the gun he decided otherwise. The robber then grabbed Selden's gold watch and chain, fired at him, and disappeared around the corner of the building...
...medal in an oratorical contest in which he spoke on the life of Robert E. Lee. He was then charged with having plagiarized part of his remarks; and the gold medal was taken back. He was expelled from the scholarly precincts. But his friends gave him a gold watch-chain and elected him to the Legislature...
...become for the South what 'Bill' White is for the prairies. . . . On the coast there is Fremont Older, lone survivor of a bygone epoch, who by virtue of his character, repute and personal following maintains an exceptional autonomy under Hearst ownership. There are the Scripps-Howard papers, a notable chain of twenty-six dailies in large and medium-sized cities, where the central editorial control is the slightest, and the editor of each paper is the captain of his craft not only over the editorial and news columns but over the advertising columns as well. . . . Finally, there are the Baltimore...