Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently intended chiefly as Actor Powell's parole from musical pictures, Hard to Get contains only two songs, for elaborate orchestration substitutes a use of acrophobia unsurpassed since Harold Lloyd's Safety Last. Good sequence: Arthur Housman, ablest rival to Robert Benchley in the cinematic portrayal of amiable...
"Two thirds of the state budget in normal times goes for penal and mental institutions," Major Robart, Chairman of the State Parole Board, told 40 P. B. H. Freshman social service workers at a banquet in the Union last night.
In discussing the situation in Massachusetts, Robart explained that the parole board enjoys complete independence from "political influence," and uses objective and scientific methods in granting paroles. "Each case is studied by a sociologist, a psychiatrist, a psychologist, and a doctor," he said.
The efforts of the State to get a confession by less scientific methods were unending. Earl at one point was put in solitary confinement for a year. A year ago State Patrol Sergeant Joseph McCauley disguised himself as a clergyman and went to see Mary. After a few visits he...
Woodrow Wilson called him the First Citizen of Texas." New York's Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise said he was "the greatest rabbi we've got." Jacob Schiff gave him $500,000 to set up a Jewish Immigrants' Information Bureau in Galveston, Tex., to attract more Jews to...