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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some courts, it has been found that at least 25% of convicted offenders can safely and successfully be dealt with under probation super instead of commitment. . . . It is now proposed by our progressive Superintendent of Federal prisons, backed by our equally efficient President Hoover, to increase the investment in individual treatment and reclamation of young offenders in the courts before they are sent to prison. It is hoped that at least one paid probation officer will be placed in every Federal court and that in the larger courts, which handle thousands of these cases, there may be several officers...
...Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1924. The truth is the Navy Department asked me if I would be a voluntary witness and I proceeded to New York from Washington and was the only witness called. This is a matter of record with the press and all evidence can be found in the Judge Advocate General's office at Washington...
...Race horses, high-strung, feel more at ease if constantly attended by a fellow animal. A cheap, tractable animal, easy to feed, taking up small room in a stall, is the goat. Many a racehorse, especially in England, has had a goat for stall-mate. Turf crooks long ago found that few things will upset a horse more than to ''get his goat" (take it away) the night before the race...
...small "killer" boats which bring in the whales. In addition to airplanes, modern "factory" ships use radio telephones, while the small "killers" carry a cannon that shoots a time-fused, explosive, 120-lb. harpoon. Once splashing and spouting in all the seas, whales are now found plentifully only in small areas of the Arctic and Antarctic...
...University of Illinois stadium, the gridiron, worn ragged, got a $3.000 resurfacing. Sod with a mixture of sand, clay, loam, best for drainage, most free from weeds, was found in a pasture, brought 15 miles to its final, glorious resting place...