Word: bedfords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City, bald, big-hearted Joseph Eugene Corrigan, felt like the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. Upon one of his judicial doorsteps?the Women's Court? stood 48 bedraggled young girls, eleven of them carrying their babies (illegitimate) wrapped in blankets. They had all come down from Bedford Reformatory, where indigent New York girls who begin their sexual lives too soon are sent as wayward minors. To Chief Magistrate Corrigan's intense embarrassment, the 48 girls and eleven babes had all been released and returned to the Women's Court on the ground, developed during investigation...
Judge Corrigan had just visited Bedford Reformatory, questioned its inmates and returned to the city satisfied that all the girls deserved to be where they were. But John J. Bennett Jr., the State's young new Attorney General, released the 48 (and three more who could not travel) lest the State be guilty of sequestering young innocents...
...Judge Corrigan lodged them in a jail, a Catholic home, a welfare institution. Then he conferred anxiously with Attorney General Bennett and Lawyer Samuel Seabury, the referee in charge of the State's investigation of the city courts. Upshot: back went all but one of the girls to Bedford. The 48th, one Anna Peltz, whom the New York World described as "a buxom girl of 19 with a wiggling walk," was left in town to be retried as a test case...
President Herbert Hoover was informed last week that he may expect this week a visit, "strictly unofficial," from Canada's Prime Minister, Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett...
...Committee Angus Daniel McDonald of Southern Pacific Co.; Banker Joseph Henry O'Neil of Boston; Banker Elisha Walker of Manhattan; Philanthropist Dennis Francis Kelly of Chicago; President Bernard Joseph Rothwell of Bay State Milling Co., Boston; Paul E. Fitzpatrick of Brown, Durrel Co., Boston; John Duff of New Bedford, Mass.; John F. Tensley of Worcester, Mass.; Vice President Michael Lester Madden of Hollingsworth & Whitney Co., Boston; Theodore F. McManus of Detroit.- Soon after making these appointments, His Holiness issued a mighty interpretation of the will of God, a 16,000-word encyclical addressed to his flocks, to the Knightly...