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...Brucker, to investigate the State's enforcement officers for negligence in executing the State Prohibition Act, with its minimum mandatory jail sentence of one year for first offenders. Likewise he prepared to secure the necessary appropriations to equip his State police on Prohibition enforcement duty with three bullet-proof automobiles, a dozen bullet-proof vests, six Thompson machine guns, a large supply of tear...
Proper ventilation and ability to study are so closely allied that considerable expenditure would be justified in trying to rectify the unfortunate conditions in the library. The number of protests is an ample proof that the present conditions are not only unsatisfactory, but also extremely annoying. In a University that has the largest endowment in the country there surely should be sufficient funds somewhere to provide for some relief from this highly annoying feature of the library. Preparation for examinations is unpleasant enough without the addition of totally unnecessary hindrances. F. T. Leahy...
...spite of all that can be done certain departments are at times in the ascendency, while others seem on the down grade. Yet the general level at Harvard remains high, and the Sorokin appointment furnishes proof that Harvard is not asleep to her most vital need, good teachers...
...note of the bodyguardsmen (secret service) standing about. They could not be too careful guarding the President's life. Some crank might get in. McKinley had been shot that way by a man with a revolver under a handkerchief. President Harding had been asked to wear a bullet-proof vest at his first reception in 1922 but refused. An experienced receptionist, Citizen Hunefeld knew he could not put his hands in his pockets; he had seen women warned to take their hands out from under their furs...
...under fee by a client, still owes his first duty to the State! He must hasten Justice and make it sure, even against the wishes or the interests of his client. He must control the exposition of facts related to him by the client and gather the elements of proof into an honored sequence, so that when the trial begins it can move speedily to a decision. There must be no emotional pleading, no such disgrace to Justice as what the American's call 'sob stuff...