Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your Aug. 19 issue, p. 10, under "Crime," you state that one of Superintendent of Prisons Sanford Bates' "methods for relieving prison congestion is to increase paroles now limited by the scarcity of probation officers. President Hoover last week promised him more of these officers." This is all correct, but your readers may be confused as others I know have been, into thinking that Mr. Bates' recommendation, which the President is backing, means the release from the Federal prisons sooner and oftener. This is not the idea at all. Superinintendent Bates is recommending as the National Probation Association has been...
There are 43,500,000 shares of General Motors Common Stock outstanding. How come the paper loss to holders is only $62,500,000 when it drops 14¾ points (TIME, Aug. 26, p. 47)? Come, TIME, charge yourself with a $563,000,000 "bull...
...agree with R. E. Connolley, Esq., Letters, Aug. 26. Often one wonders if TIME is afraid of the Cinema business circulation curse. For instance the feeble attempt to repeat the facts when covering Cock-Eyed World in the issue of Aug...
...ugly fact bobbed up to bother Queen Victoria she knew how to tuck the thing away comfortably out of mind. There are still Britons with that talent. Last week His Majesty's government decided to tuck away the fact of racial conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine (TIME, Aug. 26, et seq.]. The thing was attempted by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald in the course of his great speech outlining policy (see p. 25). Said...
...crony, rich Philip Sassoon, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald with foreign ambassadors on the aircraft carrier Argus. Absent from race and show was Alford Joseph Williams, U. S. contestant, who had to withdraw because his racing plane would not leave the trial waters of the Severn River, Md. (TIME, Aug. 26). Around the diamond-shaped course the six planes raced. Monti and Cadringher were forced down. Atcherly, favorite, was disqualified for cutting a pylon. Sped the others - Waghorn at 328.63 m. p. h. for the course. That won. Italian dal Molin went 284.20 m. p. h.; Grieg...