Word: carew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great socialite families of the U.S. Gently questioning her in clipped accents was a judge whose big body filled his ample chair and whose funny little goatee waggled up and down as he talked. An oldtime Tammany politician from the East Side, Justice John Francis Carew had hitherto known Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Astors, Goulds only as so many shadowy newspaper names which, as flesh & blood, never came into his middleclass world. Now it was his duty to shape the life of this small Vanderbilt by deciding what her surroundings, friends and education should be for the next decade...
When the case was brought before him eight weeks ago Justice Carew ruled at once that it was up to Mrs. Whitney to prove that Mrs. Vanderbilt could not be trusted to rear and educate her daughter properly. Mrs. Whitney promptly set out to besmirch her sister-in-law's reputation, to show that in the years when she was gadding about Paris, Cannes, Biarritz and Deauville with her hard-drinking, hard-living friends she had paid no heed at all to Gloria's upbringing. Mrs. Harry Hays Morgan, Mrs. Vanderbilt's mother, turned...
...Justice Carew knew what Gloria herself wanted him to decide. Wide apart as were their worlds, he had had no trouble drawing the child out in their private heart-to-heart. He has raised three sons, two daughters of his own. A Columbia College and Law School graduate who still quotes Latin fluently, he worked up through the ranks, went to Congress in 1913, headed Tammany's delegation in the House for years. There he was a member of the potent Ways & Means Committee, a close crony of Nicholas Longworth and John Nance Garner. A devout Catholic and devoted...
...their three-hour chat Justice Carew found Gloria letter-perfect in both the Protestant "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" and Lord's Prayer and in the Catholic "Hail Mary." He also found that she decidedly wanted to stay with her Aunt Gertrude. It was not that she disliked her mother. But it had been no fun knocking around Europe with only an old nurse to play with. Her good times began at Old Westbury. She liked playing with her eight small cousins.* She liked her pony and dog. She liked going to Greenvale School every morning...
...toughest decisions of his career Justice Carew had no one to help him make up his mind because he alone had heard all the evidence with impartiality. But the doughty Justice felt equal to the task. When an East Side mother turned up with 300 signatures to "An Humble Appeal to Give This Mother to Her Child" he barked: "If she brings it to me I'll make her eat it with catsup...