Word: worth
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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...
...Chile or Turkey. It is almost half the size of Mexico. It comprises 190,000,000 acres, enough for President Hoover to give one acre to every man, woman and child in the U.S. and still have enough left to do a wholesale real estate business. If it were worth $100 per acre-which it is not-its sale would wipe out the national debt. It lies in 16 "public land" States throughout the West. Nevada heads the list, with the U. S. owning 75% of its surface territory. Utah is next with 47% U. S. ownership and Wyoming third...
...South he and others harvested a fat crop of Negro delegates and, according to G. O. P. custom, took them on up to the convention at Chicago, all expenses paid, to vote for Wood. Quartered at the Vincennes Hotel, these black Republicans ate, drank and slept up $3,850 worth of hospitality. Only $1,500 was ever paid on their account by General Wood's unsuccessful managers...
...protection. Jewish speakers who followed the Senator of course squarely blamed the whole crisis on the laxity of the British administration in Palestine. Meanwhile in London the World Zionist Organization was actively negotiating with the new British Labor Cabinet. In the London press the issue of whether it is worth while for the Empire to retain Palestine as a mandate was sensationally aired...
...situation was worth conversation. As rotten as San Francisco's politics were San Francisco's turn-of-the-century newspapers. To gain an end editors stopped at nothing. A typical incident: at 1 p. m. one day the city editor of William Randolph Hearst's morning Examiner told one of his newssnatchers that R. A. Crothers, owner of the Bulletin, had been attacked as he was emerging from a restaurant. Rushing to the Bulletin, the Examiner reporter learned that Owner Crothers was still in the restaurant, enjoying a good meal, good health. The newsgatherer departed. A few minutes later...