Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...district judges under whom they but have to pass a special civil service examination. All of them are trained, experienced men in the work. Their duties are to investigate and report to the judges on offenders convicted but not yet sentenced by the court. They investigate the home conditions previous history and real character of offenders, especially first offenders, many of them young boys, who reach the Federal courts because they have committed an offense against Federal laws. If the report and recommendations of the probation officer convince the judge that the young offender can safely be released under...
...want only a tariff on agriculture. 3) The Democrats, supposedly in favor of very little tariff of any kind. But the lineup meant little. There are regular Republicans only half-hearted about many tariff items. And all good Democrats want some tariff or other for their people at home. The Insurgents, led by Idaho's Borah, and the Democrats, were agreed that they wanted tax reports made available - as am munition. The tax reports will show what profits numbers of businesses have made under present tariff duties. When it came to the question of confining the tariff to agriculture...
...collision. He pointed to the other collisionist, one Oliver H. Austin, and said, "That is the man." Result: $200 fine for Autoist Austin for hit-&-running. Police in Phoenix City, Ala. observed an automobile behaving peculiarly at midnight, suspected autointoxication, arrested the occupants, found allegedly three bottles of home brew. One B. M. Haines was charged with driving while intoxicated the automobile of James Thomas Heflin, junior-junior, that is, to the senior Senator from Alabama. Junior Heflin was also lodged in jail, charged with drunkenness, with violating the state prohibition law. Results: Heflin Jr. received a visit from...
...provided and hauled much of Kansas City's north end, not to mention providing most of the politics of the city and environs as leader of "He Goat" (local equivalent of Tammany Hall). Once when Tom and his family were away, robbers looted his $100,000 home of $150,000 worth of jewels and clothes including 480 pairs of silk stockings bought for his daughter Marceline's trousseau. However, Tom was in Manhattan at the time, and was reported to have won $200,000 from New York bookies betting on a horse...
...British Empire has a greater potential home consumption than the United States. She has larger territories and population, and greater natural resources. I hold therefore that the trades union movement must follow with the closest attention the proposals being made for the organization of the British Commonwealth as an economic unit...