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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great grew his fame as a penologist that Herbert Hoover brought him to Washington, Governor Franklin Roosevelt and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia tried in vain to lure him into the services of the State and City of New York. Having kicked politics out of the antiquated prison system and built 16 model Federal prisons, last week Penologist Bates resigned, turned over his job to his Assistant James V. Bennett, to try his hand at crime prevention as Executive Director of the Boys Clubs of America, Inc.. which has 291 clubs in high-delinquency centres...
Cambridge itself holds a notable collection of things worth seeing. The most attractive building is the Massachusetts Hall, built in 1720. Various alterations and improvements and the destruction of the roof by fire in 1924, have done much to take away the original charm of a building in a modified Jacobean style (something like a simplified version of St. Catharine's), but something is left worth looking at. Otherwise the Harvard buildings are almost uniformly inconspicuous and undistinguished, with a few lapses into pomposity, mostly neo-neo-classic, and one real screamer which at first escapes my attention and which...
...partly correct" that some 21 U. S. citizens in Sian were being "held as hostages" by the Reds, but that General Yang had been nice about saying he would arrange for them to leave by motor truck through Banditland or perhaps by airplane. Meanwhile huge U. S.-built Nanking Government planes, each capable of taking out a score of persons, flew back & forth between Nanking and Sian, each carrying one or two Chinese officers of low rank supposedly entrusted with the usual bribe money indispensable to settling a Chinese crisis. "Was I endangered in Sian?" said Counselor Peck, who knows...
...When not in residence with Hardy he is "somewhere in the desert" where he is supposed to own a silver mine or gold mine. He has two Lincoln Zephyrs and supercharged Ford, specially geared for high speed. He is about 33, 5 ft. 10 in 220 lb. He is built like a wrestler, wit tremendous hands, bulldog shoulders and biceps half again as big as Jack Dempsey's. His face is handsome, disposition genial. He can consume abnormal quantities of whiskey. He frequently stays up all night and recently did so five nights in a row. He is naturally...
...started in London debtors' prisons, where no other form exercise was practical, in the 18th Century. A prison alumnus, Robert Mackay was the first recognized world's champion in 1820. In 1822, Harrow schoolboys took up the game. In 1853, when London Prince's Club built a racquets court, racquets became exclusively a pastime of patricians. Racquets' rise in the world was accompanied by no spread in popularity. There are only twelve racquets courts which cost some $75,000 each, in the U. S. A few dozen more are scattered over the rest of the world...