Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 for many years, more probation officers be employed...
...anyone not liking Showboat and in my opinion Laura LaPlante did better work in that play than she has ever done before. Also she does not meet the description with which TIME credited her. That is the only picture I can think of now which got panned but I know there have been others...
...reappeared, but this time it was no fiction. When all the world was at war and Woodrow Wilson had a great deal to do, he used to send out his then good friend and trusted secretary, Joseph Patrick Tumulty, to tell correspondents whatever it was proper for them to know. Five times so far President Hoover has cancelled conferences with pressmen. Last week, distracted by Tariff, World Court, Arms Reduction and Republican National Committee, he sent his trusted secretary George Akerson to fill his appointment with the press. This Official Spokesman, strikingly Hooveresque in physical appearance, once a news-gatherer...
...allowing the Vatican more territory and a motion to prevent Al Smith from building the highest building in New York. Then will be a two weeks' discussion on prohibition, followed by ten days of Arizona Senators denouncing the Boulder Dam. "And by Christmas you won't know whether the birds got any seed or not.'' The prophet, Mr. Will Rogers, was wrong. The tariff bill was presented in the Senate last week by Senator Smoot. Two resolutions were offered calling upon the Treasury Department to open income tax reports of corporations. Another resolution directed that...
...crux of the matter is that the law requires tourists to declare "the full foreign value" of merchandise bought abroad. Tourists ordinarily know but one foreign value?the price they paid?and almost invariably set down and pay duty on the retail price. Yet the law defines the full foreign value as "the market value or the price . . . in the usual wholesale quanti- ties." Every businessman knows that the average retail price is about 50% greater than the wholesale price, yet tourists commonly pay duty on the former...