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Some readers of syndicated columns, after sampling the scissors & knives of Dorothy Thompson, Westbrook Pegler, Heywood Broun, turn to Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day for healing and balm. To some other readers, the President's wife seems the Pollyanna of columnists. Even when, last fortnight, she reproved Dramatic Critics Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times and Richard Watts Jr. of the New York Herald Tribune for their blunt dismissal of Save Me the Waltz, a short-lived, Graustark-under-a-dictator romance, it was still in the spirit of loving the sunshine. Critics Atkinson and Watts, wrote...
...group had conspired to propagate Communism on the Pacific Coast, causing Mr. Cox to lose his job. Damages asked: $5,100,000. Mr. Cox announced that if he won his case he would donate $5,000,000 to the rescued State of California, retain the rest as personal balm...
...York Court of Appeals came the case of a man who wanted to sue another man for alienating his wife's affections and criminal conversation (adultery). The case (Hanfgarn v. Mark) had been appealed to test two phases of New York's 1935 anti-heart balm act. For the plaintiff, counsel claimed that the rights which a husband has in the affection and society of his wife are property rights. After citing legal precedents, counsel turned to Petruchio's lines about his wife Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew (Act III, Scene...
...last day of 1936 in the case of Fearon v. Treanor was the section of the law banning breach of promise suits. Last week in the U. S. Supreme Court Nurse Catherine Fearon of New York filed an appeal seeking to have New York's anti-heart balm act declared unconstitutional. Cited by her lawyer was Article I, section 10 of the U. S. Constitution: "No State shall.. . pass any . . . law impairing the obligation of contracts. . . ." In the Hanfgarn v. Mark opinion New York's Court of Appeals ruled that marriage "is not a common-law contract...
...exhausting hours of ministrations by the Archbishop of Canterbury and others as officially a persona mixta or "mixed person." In the eyes of faithful, devout members of the Church of England, His Majesty is henceforth a mixture of priest and layman. He has been anointed with holy oil or balm as a bishop is consecrated, and upon his head has briefly rested what is called St. Edward's Crown. This is too sacred to be worn in the open or seen...