Word: courting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assailed for championing "companionate marriage," ousted from office for "campaign irregularities," famed Benjamin Barr Lindsey of Denver was last week disbarred for "professional misconduct" by the Colorado State Supreme Court. While Denver Juvenile Court Judge- an office which he made nation-famed-he accepted a "gift" of some $40,000 from socialite Helen Elwood Stokes, in return helped her "as friend and counsellor" to break the will of her late husband, Hotelman W. E. D. Stokes. Said the disbarring judge: "By taking fees while judge, he was false to his oath both as a judicial officer and as an attorney...
...State's witnesses were evasive. Gamblers Alvin C. Thomas ("Titanic Thompson") and Nathan ("Nigger Nate") Raymond, describing a $300,000 stud poker game, said that McManus was a "cheerful loser." Bridget Farry, hotel chambermaid, who went to court in an emerald dress with a green ribbon in her hair, silver stockings and gilt shoes, refused to identify McManus. The prosecution could not connect McManus with the battered automatic, could not establish a motive why he should shoot Rothstein for owing him money...
...Defendant McManus, free on light bail while court was recessed, went to a Thanksgiving Day football game in Manhattan. Robbers entered his Riverside Drive apartment, stole $8,000 worth of jewelry and clothing...
...WORLD COURT In the nine years of its existence, the Permanent Court of International Justice -offspring of the League of Nations-has been the subject of mountainous reams of essay, interminable hours of debate. It has rendered just 17 judgments. In 1920 U. S. Minister to Switzerland Pleasant A. Stovall signed World Court articles of adherence for the U. S. Government, only to have, the U. S. Senate place so many reservations on U. S. participation that other member nations refused to accept the Stovall signature...
Last week the spotlight of world attention focused on another U. S. diplomat. With his pockets stuffed with authorizations from President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson, Jay Pierrepont Moffat, U. S. Chargé D'Affaires at Berne,* traveled from London to Geneva to sign World Court articles of adherence once more...