Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week there were reverberations. Major General James Guthrie Harbord, retired (Radio Corp. of America) as 2nd Division Commander, rumbled judicially: "The placing of a memorial by another division almost at the gateway of Belleau Wood will distort history for posterity." Back came Lieut. Carroll J. Swan, president of the...
Not until last fortnight's mutiny at Leavenworth Penitentiary (TIME, Aug. 12), was something done. Prompt then to speak was President Hoover. Last week he announced a new program to meet this old problem:
Causes for congestion were sought. The President explained from data supplied him: "The increased number of prisoners is due to the general increase in crime, the largest number of our prisoners being violators of the narcotics act. They comprise about 33% of the inmates. . . . Prohibition contributes about 14%."
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...
Last week another giant of farm co-operation strode on the U. S. scene. Incorporated at $50,000,000 as the United Growers of America, this new co-operative purposed to bring together into one large selling agency fruit and vegetable growers throughout the land, exclusive of California. It will...