Word: plans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then we went in to dinner and I was seated with Otto Kahn and with E. E. Loomis of the Morgan Co.? Mr. Kahn brought up the subject of . . . railroad valuation. He said to me, 'Your plan will not work'. . . . And that ended the conversation with Mr. Kahn...
After the Leavenworth eruption President Hoover evolved a plan for quick penal relief. Near Leavenworth Penitentiary is the Army's Ft. Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks. The President ordered the 690 bad soldiers held there to be quartered in other Army penal institutions, making room for 1,800 civilian prisoners from crammed Atlanta and Leavenworth. Already over 1,000 have been transferred to Ft. Leavenworth. Not transferred was famed Dr. Frederick Cook, North pole "explorer," "blue sky" stock salesman. A well-behaved inmate, he took no part in the riot last summer...
Last fortnight Attorney General Mitchell detailed over the radio the Administration's plan for permanent prison betterment. It called for $6.500,000 to build five new Federal prisons: a 1,200-inmate penitentiary in the northeastern states, an industrial reformatory in the West for 1.200, three Federal jails to hold 500 short-term convicts each. The plan also projects reorganization of the parole system, development of prison industries, provision for education of prisoners...
...Castle, Del., where the whipping post contrasts strangely with a "model'' prison system. Warden Elmer Joseph Leach, denouncer of whippings which he has to administer, has developed at New Castle the unique plan of his predecessor Warden Plummer. Over the 600 convicts stand only three guards. The inmates are given prison keys, allowed to work unguarded outside the prison walls, permitted to drive trucks to Wilmington unaccompanied. Escapes are rare. The convicts themselves deliver discipline, ostracize rule-breakers. The inmates are given piecework, earn money for cigarets. clothes, sweets. During the day they wear blue denim work clothes...
Heywood Broun in the New York Telegram: "I can think of nothing in several seasons which has moved me so much. . . . If you plan to see only one play this year go to Berkeley Square. If your budget provides two evenings in the theatre see it twice...