Word: parolees
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Hardest hit of all were the French Protestant missions. More than half of their missionaries were mobilized at the outbreak of the war, leaving many stations dependent solely on women workers. To the support of these missions in Madagascar, Basutoland, Barotseland, the Cameroons and Gabon, and certain Pacific islands, have...
Last week Harry Dalton, doling out patriotic literature from his Yorkville headquarters, found himself leading a full-fledged political movement. At a mass meeting 4,500 patriotic Yorkvillagers rallied round his Congressional candidate, Republican James Elaine Walker Jr., great-nephew of Garfield's and Harrison's Secretary of...
The Gluecks found that boys treated gently by judges got into trouble as often as those treated roughly, concluded that probation and parole are no cures for crime. But they learned two encouraging facts: as their group grew older, 1) one man in three reformed, 2) the crimes of the...
The day he ran away from his father's Indiana farm at 13 . . . saloon brawls and street fights ... the first time he knocked out a man with his famed "corkscrew punch" (glorified left hook) and decided to call himself Kid McCoy . . . the night in 1896 when he stopped Tommy...
Last June, when 36-year-old Lou Gehrig, the Yankees' "Iron Horse," said good-by to baseball, no insurance company would have considered him a good risk. For Gehrig was benched by a rare, incurable, creeping paralysis known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Last week stout-hearted Lou, now a...