Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Responsible for the President's program was Sanford Bates, U. S. Superintendent of Prisons, selected as a man of "advanced ideas" by Mrs. Willebrandt shortly before her retirement last spring. For ten years Mr. Bates was Massachusetts' Commissioner of Correction, fought many a fight to modernize that State's penal system. No sentimentalist, he believes in prison reform, rehabilitation of society's sick-minded. One of his methods for relieving U. S. prison congestion is to increase paroles, now limited by the scarcity of probation officers. President Hoover last week promised him more of these officers...
...Ordinarily I pay no attention to campaign canards. . . . In the interest of truth I am compelled to deny that I ever urged or suggested that Mrs. Willebrandt discuss any man's religion . . . nor did I ever insert any religious comment in any speech she ever made, nor was any manuscript of hers containing any attack on any man's religion or raising the religious issue ever submitted to or scrutinized by me, nor did any manuscript of her Springfield speech which came to headquarters contain any such expression as 'Go back to your pulpits and preach this...
...man owns a $50,000 piece of real estate, he may have to sacrifice $20,000 or $25,000 for an immediate sale. His land has no immediate market. It is an asset, but it is a frozen asset. From a merchandising standpoint, the realtor handles an excellent product but is handicapped by a primitive distribution system...
NowaDays. When two girls fancy a man, everyone is apt to be perturbed, and someone, according to Playwright Arthur F. Brash, is likely to get killed. Barbara Herford and Paula Newhall bet fifty dollars over Boyd Butler, a robust footballer who was also greatly interested in such erudite matters as coin collections...
Nine years ago a man named Julian La Rose Harris went to Columbus, Ga. With him went his wife, Julia Collier Harris, and together they bought controlling shares of a newspaper, the Enquirer-Sun. All Columbians knew about the Harrises was that he was a son of Author Joel Chandler (Uncle Remus) Harris, that he was a newspaperman who was once managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution, more recently editor of the Paris Herald; that she was his wife. Columbians did not care to know much more, because the Enquirer-Sun was not much of a newspaper to bother about...