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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mr. Levy, not used to our darkies, but desiring to appear sympathetic, ejaculated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...Mr. de Golier made loud noises about how he, thrice Mayor of Bradford. Pa., had "helped elect Herbert Hoover" and now look what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No More Pests | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Cattle-Herding | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...years Mr. Burke has been associated with the G. O. P. Committee. The post of General Counsel was especially created for him. Throughout the campaign he sat just outside Candidate Hoover's door. President Hoover took him along to the White House where he serves as the President's chief political adviser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Word Wanglers | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Last week Mr. Burke left his White House desk a while to ponder a reply to Mrs. Willebrandt's statement. She had transferred the odium of her Springfield address direct to him and his Republican National client. Careful not to contradict Mrs. Willebrandt in any major particular, Mr. Burke responded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Word Wanglers | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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