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...nearly thirteen years Lewis E. Lawes has been warden of Sing Sing prison, and during that period intermittent magazine articles have revealed a growing philosophy. In his first book, "20,000 Years in Sing Sing," he utters for the first time what may be regarded as a rough draft of the completed product of his meditations...
...Budget but also of the Treasury's credit. It would be financed by the sale of R. F. C. debentures which are only indirect obligations of the Government. Senator Robinson took it back to the Capitol where his party colleagues closeted themselves in an effort to draft a legislative compromise. Most Democrats objected to the idea of R. F. C. loans to private industries rather than to public agencies on the ground that the Administration could use this financial power to muster election votes. Republican Senators, generally cold to their President's proposal, were reported aggrieved...
...when ambitious Martin Davey, Ohio tree surgeon and onetime Congressman, tried to draft Woodrow Wilsons Secretary of War for the primary, Mr. Baker sat down hard on the idea. He would not let his name go on the ballot. He insisted that "all hands" favored Governor White. He went on about his Cleveland law practice as if he had never heard of the Presidency. Mr. Davey, no friend of Governor White, was accused of promoting the Baker boom more to hurt White than to nominate Baker...
Caution, Though Premier Bennett promised to draft a Broadcasting Bill and present it shortly to the House for action, many a Canadian editor urged caution. Admitting "the undoubted fact that . . . the quality of the entertainment is very often poor, and the overload of advertising little short of exasperating," Montreal's Daily Star remarked that "Radio is not a necessity of life," questioned whether Canada in the present depression can afford to build an estimated $5,000,000 chain of high-power stations and switch to broadcasting of a higher type...
...Platform Committee, which is working on a platform to be presented to the Convention for amendment or ratification, has arrived, after several meetings, at a tentative draft. The platform is very brief, and will include a number of positive reforms not ordinarily characteristic of political platforms. Definite proposals on prohibition, war debts, and public utilities will be made. The Committee, headed by D. E. Scoll '28, includes W. P. Maddox, tutor in Government, Donald Hiss 3L, G. D. Reilly 2L, and J. T. Higgins...