Word: condonation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oursler's study, where a teletype machine is ready to carry his commands to editorial underlings in Manhattan. Last year the Falmouth teletype flashed to Liberty one of Editor Oursler's decisions : to publish the "inside story" of Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, the garrulous Bronx schoolmaster who projected himself into the Lindbergh kidnapping case and helped Colonel Lindbergh get rid of $50,000 to no avail. A guest at West Falmouth, "Jafsie" had convinced Editor Oursler, who candidly admits his magazine function is primarily to entertain the publie, that he had "new material" to reveal...
...Root-Pitney" members who will divide the winner's check are W. Parmer Fuller and Gerald M. Trautman, speakers; and Clarence M. Condon, Bernard E. Drape, Robert S. Fougner, Leslie L. Roos Malcolm I. Ruddock, and Arthur L. Webber, all of whom worked on the brief...
...John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, eccentric Bronx schoolmaster and ransom-passer in the Lindbergh case, wrote a letter to the New York Times nominating a friend for New York State Boxing Commissioner: "He knows every angle of the game. . . . My opinion is based upon a long and intimate acquaintance. . . . The man to whom I refer is Mr. John Harrison Dempsey, called by the sporting fraternity by the familiar name of Jack Dempsey." Added the Times's editor: "All right, Doctor, but the name is William Harrison Dempsey." Restaurateur Dempsey was on his way to Miami, to lend his name...
George A. Condon, manager of the shop, was willing to go to any extreme in order that his thriving business might be continued. According to him, between six and seven thousand customers make use of his emporium during the course of the college year, and he considers 40 haircuts a day about average. Condon revealed that the barber shop has been in operation since the building of the Union...
Meantime the bickerings of Republican Hoffman and Democrat Wilentz were filling the Press with charges and counter-charges which grew more bitter every day. When Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon took ship for Panama, Governor Hoffman threatened to have him brought back for questioning. Superintendent Schwarzkopf announced that purported representatives of the Governor had tampered with his State troopers, tried to make them admit that Hauptmann had-been framed. Governor Hoffman impugned the credibility of the chief state witnesses at the Hauptmann trial. Last fortnight he took a PWA wood expert to Hauptmann's home in The Bronx, emerged...