THE WEEK
Peavey, Lynn
The Week Science Links World, Two Notable Women Die. Change Dry Plan. Conscript Private Property. BY LYNN PEAVEY SCIENCE LINKS WORLD "IVTHEN rcpresenattives of the great nations of the world...
...TRANSFER DRY ENFORCEMENT ANDREW W. MELLON, secretary of the treasury, appeared before the expenditures committee of the house of representatives Saturday, and advocated that the prohibition enforcement department be transferred to the department of justice...
...The Week Science Links World, Two Notable Women Die...
...As the kins of the British empire uttered his words welcoming the delegates to the conference and advocating the elimination of "the evil results of wasteful naval armaments" his words were flashed over a net-work of wires to all sections of the world, and from central points on the several great continents they were sent into the ether to be picked up by millions of persona sitting beside their radio...
...Kenneth McKellar, of Tennessee...
...Pelton was known as "the Grand Old Lady of Georgia...
...McKellar drew no reply from his colleagues in the senate...
...FRANK IS SILENT BBTURNING from a lecture tour of the south this week...
...Inclusion of prohibition enforcement in the work of the treasury department was an "iUiogical choice," Mellon said...
...Throughout the week parts of the conference were relayed across oceans to the central broadcasting stations to he sent into the air for the radio au-i dience...
...She was a widow e»f the late Congressman W. H. Felton, who served several terms In the lower house...
...TARIFF BILL PROGRESS CONGRESS continued its deliberations this week on the tariff, prohibition and appropriation bills for administrative departments, but the interest of the national lawmakers was principally in the deliberations of another body meeting across an ocean —the naval arms limitation conference in London...
...Pear has been expressed thr t attempts might be made to bomb the levees and release their stored-up waters...
...I HITS SECRET SESSIONS I fTWE secret sessions being held at the _f_ London naval armament reduction conference were flayed in the senate this week by Sen...
...Throughout all of the campaigns of the Democratic presidential nominee, in his victories and in his defeats...
...Pres...
...Of all international covenants this particular one should be open and openly arrived at...
...S. Senate, died Saturday at her Atlanta...
...CONSCRIPT PRIVATE PROPERTY AN AMENDMENT to the federal constitution to permit the conscription of property by the government in case of war was offered in the senate at Washington this week by Sen...
...Shortly after the death of Mrs...
...William Ellery Leonard, poet, author and scholar, filed charges of "snooping" and "ungentlemanly conduct" against Scott H. Goodnight, dean of men at the school...
...TWO NOTABLE WOMEN DIE DEATH this week removed from American public life two women prominently identified with the country's politics...
...Some engineers and relief worker* have contend -ed tbat it would be better to release toe waters, while others maintain that too many are being driven from their horns*.by the backward flooding wa-fTt above the levees...
...Prohibition enforcement is now a sub-division of the treasury department...
...BY LYNN PEAVEY SCIENCE LINKS WORLD "IVTHEN rcpresenattives of the great nations of the world convened at London last week for the International peace parley, science contributed Its part in bringing the peoples of the world into a vast gathering of brotherhood and sisterhood...
...The controversy was launched when Prof...
...FLOOD CONTROVERSY ORDERS liave been Issued to shoot down airplanes flying over levees in the Swan Lake district of Mississippi...
...The course to be taken in the flood problem is a disputed one...
...The statement of Sen...
...William Jennings Bryan, widow of the great commoner and leader of the Democratic party...
...Under the amendment proposed by ten...
...Felton followed that of Mrs...
...A poll of students taken by the student paper showed the students voting almost three to one in condemnation of the dean's tactics of enforcing discipline at the institution...
...Clarence C. Dill, Washington...
...Frank announced upon his return to Madison that he had no statement to make unless the mater event-tually came before the board of university regents...
...LEGISLATURE GETS SALES TAX BILL ¦ JACKSON, Mies.—A bill imposing a per cent sales tax, and which it i% et-¦Hmated would produce approximately H&.000.000 annually, has been lntro-¦tuoaft la fb» Mississippi legislature...
...A few days after the charges had been made the dean of women, the university's daily student publication, and several newspaper* had involved themselves in the debate...
...The people of the two countries are entitled to know what is going on when their vital interests are being contracted about...
...Mrs...
...Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin found a controversy raging on the institution's campus which has attracted attention in all parts of the country...
...Great questions like this," McKellar asserted, "should not be settled by government agents In secret...
...home at the age of 94...
...Pres...
...The senate took up several more schedules in the tariff bill this week, while the house took up appropriation bills for the executive departments and debated new phases of the prohibition question...
...Rebecca L. Pelton, the only woman who hae ever held a seat in the TJ...
...Bryan was the commoner's closest companion and counseler...
...Dill private property could be oenscripted With or without compensation...
Vol. 1 • February 1930 • No. 9
