Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prison congestion worried State as well as U. S. executives. The New York World made a survey of the 22 largest prisons in the U. S. outside New York, received reports that 15 of them were "dangerously overcrowded." The percentage of population over capacity in important local prisons was: Indiana State Prison, 79%; Eastern Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, 77%; Nebraska State Penitentiary, 61%; Missouri State Prison, 42%; Rhode Island State Penitentiary, 31%; Kentucky State Prison, 31%; Maryland State Prison...
Smart citymen are not without benefit from the Doran order. Well they know that they can share with wine-making husbandmen the "exceptions" under Prohibition. From many a company they can buy barrels of perfectly legal grape juice which, unless an act of God is carefully averted, will ferment in the city home to make a cup no less convivial than that quaffed on the farm. Urban winemakers were quick to interpret the Doran order as an added legal protection to their enterprise...
...Chamber of Commerce, employer of 7,000 non-union men, stockholder in four textile mills. Mr. Ferguson's company is one of the South's great industrial concerns. It reconditioned the Leviathan after the War, built the turbo-electric Panama-Pacific liners Virginia, California, and Pennsylvania, as well as many a vessel for the Navy. Strongwilled, strong-spoken, Mr. Ferguson declared...
Ordered Secretary Wilbur: "Well, then, leave them alone. Forget about putting them on a reservation...
...birds, the springtime. He has accidentally killed a fellow who was making advances to his wife. As soon as he is free a truck hurts Davy Lee and the wandering story that is a framework for his sob is washed out again with a flood of tears. Jolson sings well, although without burnt cork, which he really needs, such ditties as "Little Pal" and an old one, "Back in Your Own Back Yard." The rest of the numbers will need a lot of plugging to make you remember them. Best shot: Marion Nixon telling Jolson what the manager proposed...