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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In some courts, it has been found that at least 25% of convicted offenders can safely and successfully be dealt with under probation super instead of commitment. . . . It is now proposed by our progressive Superintendent of Federal prisons, backed by our equally efficient President Hoover, to increase the investment in...

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

This "bull" reduces the paper profits of holders of 20 stocks boomed by the House of Morgan in 1929 to some $2,371,324,762. ? ED.

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

I quite agree with Subscriber Connolley in what he has to say with regard to TIME'S cinema reviews. They sound to me as though they were written by a moron or by some old crab who should be working for the Anti-Saloon League.

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

¶ Grocers calculated that the President was inefficient in buying White House food at retail instead of wholesale. Since March 4, they computed, the President and Mrs. Hoover have not passed a day without having guests at one or more meals. Some 1,400 guests ate at the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Deaf & Blind. In a theatre on the 50th floor of the Chanin Building, Manhattan, 100 people, some totally blind, some deaf, sat in their seats while Bulldog Drummond was projected on the screen and played on the recording machine. The deaf "listened" through special earphones; a lecturer with a cultured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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