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Recommendation No. 4 was the most important, stirred up the most comment, because it involved a change in the system of punishing liquor law violators. Rejecting proposals to increase the U. S. Judiciary, to establish inferior or "police" courts, the Commission suggested a modified use of existing courts. Its purpose was to get around the "cumbersome procedure of indictment and trial by jury" for petty offenders whose cases clog the courts. The Constitution calls for indictments and jury trials for "infamous crimes." The Supreme Court has held that offenses punishable by less than a year in jail are not "infamous...
...York University bounded out of its academic bed last week with a new, learned periodical, the Air Law Review. It was the first U. S. institution to establish a full school of Aeronautics with help of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. Therefore it considered itself having a preemption on academic Aeronautics. Last August N. Y. U. roused itself when Northwestern University at Chicago set up an Air Law Institute on the model of the Koenigsberg Institut für Luftrecht, established in 1924 as the world pioneer. N. Y. U. promised itself a similar institute...
Providence. Rhode Island's Attorney-General Oscar Heltzen worked to establish manslaughter charges against the crew of the C. G. 290. When three U. S. Treasury agents tried to enter his inquiry, he ordered them out. declaring: "This is a State affair. You're coming here to listen in and since you won't cooperate, I don't intend to let you in for that purpose...
...obvious that no part of this amount should be applied directly to the House Plan, even though it represents at present an extremely important aspect of the University. Mr. Harkness, it has been reported offered Harvard what was needed to establish the House Plan, and the University has made its estimate. There are far more crying needs in the University than the need for adornments and embellishments of the House Plan. It is even more clear that, with the one possible exception to be named below, not a dollar should be diverted toward the athletic program, which stands...
...complete unity." In reference to the possible foundation of an International House at Harvard he said: 'I believe in International Houses. There is much theory that will not stand up when people of different countries are thrown together. They must live in close contact in order really to establish an understanding. Individual friendships determine the individual's opinion of a whole nation...