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Daughters of Jays, Biddies, Iselins, Pinchots and Cheneys have gone to Miss Walker's strict, impersonal, well-regulated school. Day after the second fire, family automobiles rolled into Simsbury to fetch the girls home. But Dr. Earle Terry Smith, husband of Founder Ethel Walker. announced that he had obtained the use of the country club on Fisher's Island off New London, that the school would carry on there until June. Meantime State police and constables guarded the school property. The fires (loss $300,000) had both been started in windward corners of basements. Not only that: within...
First kick was a declaration that revolt was smoldering. To dampen it President Terra laid down a strict censorship, sent troops to take over Montevideo waterworks, power houses and jails from officials appointed by the Administrative Council. He forbade a Batllista meeting, had its ward clubs occupied...
...been padlocked for two years and The Orient is now a poolroom for town loafers. Michiganders will have to walk three blocks west to drink their beer: an Ann Arbor ordinance forbids liquor-selling on the campus side of Division Street. Law enforcement is strict in Washtenaw County; students are accustomed to slip over to farmhouse speakeasies in Wayne County. The Mill, Dad's and Red and Bill's now fear a loss of trade...
...like his predecessors, President Hoover soon decreed that questions must be in writing, reserved the right to reply or not. Also he established three categories of White House news: 1) directly quotable; 2) background information ("off the record") not to be quoted, but to help toward intelligent reporting; 3) strict confidences...
There would seem to be only two possible motives for the Attorney General's action. Either he is seeking a reputation for strict attendance to his legal duties, or he is making an effort to prevent graduates of the smaller, less well-equipped schools from taking the examinations in this State. The new ruling has this effect because the graduates of recognized schools such as Harvard are not dependent on the Massachusetts examinations to practice medicine in this State, but can take the more comprehensive national examinations, which most of the graduates of the smaller schools are unable to pass...