Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 of offenders, especially first offenders, many of them...
Last week Austrian businessmen seemed to have accomplished what the Austrian government and the Austrian press have been unable to do: put an end to the imminent threats of civil war between Austria's two pugnacious private armies, the reactionary Heimwehr and the Socialist Schutzbund (TIME, Aug. 19, et seq.). Fortnight ago when Heimwehr-Schutzbund feeling was at its tensest, members of the Association of Austrian Industrialists marched to the office of Chancellor Streeruwitz to point out that rioting between the two groups was damaging Austria's credit abroad, driving money-spending tourists from the country, ruining Austrian prosperity...
...fully appreciate the gravity of the present situation. Nevertheless I think it is a mistake to conclude that civil war will result from the recent clashes. . . . The Government is strong enough to prevent what the people are fearing from occurring...
Died. Col. Abraham Gilbert Mills, 85, of Manhattan, Civil War veteran, Otis Elevator Co. official, onetime (1882-85) National Baseball League president; at his summer home, Terrace Gardens, Mass...
...Ford last week bought for a reputed price of $10,000 the 200-acre Vaucluse gold mine in Orange County, Va., never profitably worked since pre-Civil War days...