Word: groups
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Commission's only blossom in the three subsequent days of its Washington meeting was dissension over the scope of its inquiry. One group of Commissioners wanted to go to what Commissioner Mackintosh called the "guts" of Prohibition? i. e., the enforceability of the 18th Amendment. Other commissioners wished to examine only the skin, study only enforcement procedure. When, after the first day's wrangle, Chairman Wickersham again received newsmen, his spirits seemed less buoyant. Guardedly he declared...
Through the coffee houses of gossiping Vienna spread a rumor that handsome Prince von Starhemberg, fired by the triumphs of his friend, "Handsome Adolf" Hitler, in Germany, has a Heimwehr plot up his sleeve to doublecross the Seipel group which has given him the Ministry of Interior, hopes to manage the election of so many Heimwehr men that he himself will become No. 1 Austrian...
...Brooklyn, New York, former secretary-treasurer of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, was elected first marshal of that organization at the first meeting held last night. David Demarest Lloyd '31, of Plainfield, New Jersey, became second marshal at the same time. Both of these men are part of the group known as the "Junior eight", which is made up of eight students who are elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society early in their Junior year...
...discussion regarding the Legion's misconduct during the convention. I think it should be remembered that the Legion, as the survivors of a drafted army, are a representative slice of American citizenry, and any large group tends to misbehave when freed from restraining influences. That the legionnaires, in their capacity as military men, were accorded police protection and toleration of violations of the law is to be deplored...
...romantics disregarding all discipline and moderation. There are also extremists in the other direction, who impose a rigider and more inapplicable set of rules on themselves than those conventions from which they are revolting. However the future trends of art lie in the hands of this so called modernistic group and this fact alone makes them worth watching. It should not be forgotten that the established order of today sprang from, the misunderstood radicals of yesterday...