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...having appeared before Boston audiences in the stage version of the story last winter. The picture also marks the return of Thomas Meighan, long absent, to the screen. The comeback of a one-time favorite is always a precarious matter, but it looks as though Meighan might make the grade if he is given roles so congenial as that of the Irish trainer in Young Sinners...
...project of the Institute of Criminal Law of Harvard University printed elsewhere in the CRIMSON is an attempt to remedy an age old evil by a new method. The particular trouble in this case is the disappointingly and even dangerously low grade of the public service officials who administer penal and correctional institutions, departments of probation, parole boards and other public and private agencies dealing with delinquency and criminality. The significance of this lies in the aim to help the public agencies which every one thinks of in this connection. The recent scandal in the New York police force...
...American subsidiary, Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., received high praise from Judson Dickerman, Commission examiner. This Ohio company was called a "model concern which conforms to the best ideal of public regulations." Its rates (5? per kilowatt hr.) are low, its securities well secured, its management efficient, its service high-grade. Examiner Dickerman pointed out, however, as one possible reason for the Cleveland company's excellent record, the fact that it operates in competition with a municipal power plant which charges a nominal rate of 3? per kilowatt...
...native Canadian to head the company, has taken good care. Cocky, busy, he is a familiar figure all along the right-of-way from Halifax to Vancouver. But last week his great company was forced to admit that, temporarily at least, it has not been able to take the grade of Depression at full speed. After a long meeting in the grey Windsor Station, Montreal, last week the C. P. R. directors filed out slowly, grave in the knowledge that they had ordered only half the regular dividend payment. What was a 10%, rate...
...profession, last week formally stated that it wants lifted all laws which restrain physicians from imparting birth control information; and that medical schools and hospital clinics should teach contraceptive methods. Argument: contraception, long a fact and now a spreading practice, should be placed under highest-grade medical control...