Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House his friends think he will be the first to put a woman on the Supreme Court. A likely choice for this last honor would be bobbed-haired, blue-eyed Florence Ellinwood Allen whom the President last week appointed to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, only one step below the Supreme Court. To Miss Allen who now sits on the Ohio Supreme Court the appointment came as the latest of a long list of "firsts." She was Ohio's first woman assistant county prosecutor, Ohio's first woman Common Pleas judge. She was the nation...
Rome, March 16--Hailed as a significant step toward the maintenance of peace in Europe, two agreements were reached here today among Italy, Austria, and Hungary...
...Pictures attempt to introduce as "Stars of the future," but to do this alone would give an unfair impression of the presentation. There is action, hard-riding, good scenery, fast shooting, and here and there a hard right to the jaw. Insofar as "The Last Round-Up" is a step back to the sweeping action and vivid scenery of the silent picture days and away from the courtroom, drawing-room limits that seem to cramp the current crop of talkles, it deserves at least a few words of encouragement...
...Dean's office has acted sensibly and tolerantly. For the benefit of the press it has pronounced the affair "unauthorized" and has expressed a kind of mild indignation by taking a meaningless step "to prevent its further dissemination." For the benefit of the Critic, it has ordered, semi-officially, that the statistics gathered must not be fed to the general public. That is all, but that is intelligent and enough. University Hall is covered...
...should be done. Movies and novels have portrayed the criminal as a romantic figure, with the result that there is a tendency to admire and even envy him instead of despising him. It is this tendency which is responsible for many of our worst crimes, and the first step in any attempt to stop criminality should be a drive against the agencies behind it. There are, moreover, facilities at the disposal of a criminal which make a crime a rather simple affair. Machine guns, automatic pistols, armored cars, and swift means of escape from pursuers, all combine to simplify...