Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barney & Lover. Before the Hon. Mr. Justice Humphreys and a jury of ten men & two women in Old Bailey appeared Mrs. Elvira Dolores Barney, accused of murdering her lover Thomas William Scott Stephen after a cocktail party in her West End flat. One dawn last month a physician, hastily summoned, found Mrs. Barney, whose husband is a U. S. radio crooner, anxiously kissing Stephen's cooling corpse. A revolver lay nearby. While Mrs. Barney awaited trial her father. Sir John Mullens, was reported to be liquidating the Mullens gems to raise the huge fee of her defender, lean...
...finest defense speech I have ever heard," beamed Justice Humphreys. "There is not the slightest doubt that there was a struggle for this revolver." With the judge's charge in mind Old Bailey's ten men & two women promptly found Mrs. Barney not guilty, looked concerned when she and her mother simultaneously fainted from relief...
Justice Jennings Bailey was dubious about his right to remove Trustee McLean because "I don't think the purpose of the will [of the late John Roll McLean] was merely to preserve the estate for the grandchildren. I think it was as much for the benefit of his son." Both sides met last week in judge's chambers, emerged with a compromise. Fun-loving "Ned" McLean would resign as publisher of the Post, renounce all voice in its management or disposal. For the balance of the estate he would remain co-trustee with American Security & Trust Co. While...
Died. Willis Joshua Bailey, 77, former governor of Kansas City's Federal Reserve Bank, onetime Congressman-at-large (1899-01) and Governor of Kansas (1903-05); of heart trouble; in Kansas City, Mo. Before his marriage, he was publicized as "Kansas' most eligible bachelor," received 2,000 proposals by mail...
...letters will be judged on three points: the reasons given, the literary quality of the letter, and the novel chosen. The best letter will receive $20 and the three next best a book. The judges are Hamlin Garland, Temple Bailey, and Joseph Hergesheimer...