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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of the lack of an adequate appropriation, there are now only seven paid probation employed in only seven out of 90-odd district courts throughout the country. These seven paid probation officers have proven their worth many times over. They are appointed by the district judges under whom they but have to pass a special civil service examination. All of them are trained, experienced men in the work. Their duties are to investigate and report to the judges on offenders convicted but not yet sentenced by the court. They investigate the home conditions previous history and real character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...President Coolidge asked the Senate to let the U. S. join the Court. The Senate's answer was to tack five reservations to its approval. The reservations had to be accepted by the other nations adhering to the Court, but the reservations were of such a kind that only seven lesser nations out of 47 agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: World Court | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...pennant. When they are together in the same fleet, the New Mexico shall have it on odd numbered days of the month, the Maryland on even numbered ones. This compromise seemed Solomonic indeed-until the crew of the Maryland realized that the New Mexico would have the "meatball" seven extra days, the seven 31sts of long months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Solomonic | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...help shove some of the mountains which must be moved if Russia is to increase her industrial production by one-third, the Union Council of People's Commissars debated last week a decree which would abolish Sunday, institute a seven-day working week in all factories and other Russian institutions. Said Moscow's daily Pravda, seemingly confident that the measure would be adopted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: First of Five | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...city can hold a nine months school each year while the average for the rural district is seven. There is 7.7% illiteracy in rural districts and 4.4 in the city. The difference in health defects is startling. Eye defects: rural 23%, city 12. Defective teeth: rural 48%, city 33. Only 25.7% of the rural children 15 to 18 years of age are in high school as compared with 71.1% in the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fortunes in Faces | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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