Word: programs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
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...
Porter Plan. Eastern roads are looking forward to the fall announcement of a rail consolidation plan prepared by Claude R. Porter of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Details of this plan have not been made public, but almost any definite program would be preferable to the present uncertainty as to the I. C. C.'s position on almost every rail project...
...have any misunderstanding of our actions and therefore we shall not lay these keels until there has been opportunity for a full consideration of their effect upon the final agreement for parity, although our hopes of relief from construction lie more largely in the latter years of the program...
Because most Irish homes and nearly all Irish huts are now lit by candles and primitive flame lamps, the Shannon River Power Plant is only one phase of a bold, nationwide electrification program now being carried through by the mighty Berlin firm of Siemens-Schuckert...