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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...
...week ephemeral charges were made by Arab and Jewish organizations in Palestine and throughout the world, each race trying to put major blame on the other. But the colonial office ignored all such manifestations, prepared to finish the mopping up as a matter of police methods and British justice. Said Baron Pasfield...
...names. After some years in his father's business, William Lever decided that the possibilities of expansion were too limited, and, with his brother, James D'Arcy Lever, became a maker and seller of soap alone. He picked out "Sunlight" for his brand name and had it copyrighted throughout the world before he made a single...
...tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs, of exalted bric-a-brac, of Art. In the art tombs are laid away examples of the work of the great painters and sculp- tors of other times. There are Rubenses, Rembrandts,* Rodins, Titians, Tintorettos, Tiepolos, scores of time-proven mediocrities, one Botticelli. Progressive artists throughout the East have long given up hope for modernity in the Metropolitan. Few of them ever visit its vaults. Scathingly they view it only as a trysting place for shopgirls and their beaux, a shelter for nurse-girls and babies on rainy days, a "point of interest...
...previous wife, Odile, telling how she was untrue and shot herself when abandoned. In the second part Isabelle writes how Philippe "hung on. me, as one hangs a cloak on a peg, a soul much more beautiful and worthwhile than mine really was''; also how he died of pneumonia. Throughout Philippe becomes more and more transparent, leading to the conclusion: "If one truly loves, it is not really necessary to attach great importance to the actions of those we love. We need them; only through them can we live in a certain 'atmosphere.' And it is an atmosphere without which...