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This autumn, Judge Gerald D. Culkin handed down this verdict on the two Puerto Rican youths, which, unfortunately echoed the attitudes of men like Msgr. McCafferey. Before pronouncing the sentence, he issued a brief statement the gist of which was that society "must pursue the basic primary reasons for youthful outbreaks of violence." He then sentenced the youths to death in the electric chair. After the decision had been issued, a Times reporter learned that there was no previous record of a 17-year-old boy being sent to the electric chair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It Tolls for Thee | 10/22/1960 | See Source »

...what brought Jack back was a far cry from a final determination. The indictment against him was dismissed on technical grounds by Judge Gerald Patrick Culkin, a second-generation Tammany wheelhorse. The indictment, ruled Judge Culkin, was defective because, under New York law, the conspiracy charge should have been separated from the charter violation charges; moreover, the indictment did not specifically state that Jack was aware of Ungar's business with the city when he accepted the "loan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Back on the Job | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

Dirty Corners. Despite the four weeks of testimony, neither the committee nor witnesses were always sure of the difference between obscenity and respectable writing. Writer Margaret Culkin Banning decried "filth on the newsstand," said that more than 1,000 magazines published in the U.S. are nothing more than "pictorial prostitution." Three days later the committee discovered that Writer Banning herself was the author of an article titled "Is Virginity Old-Fashioned?" (her answer: no), which appeared in Personal Romance flanked by such other titles as "Kidnaper's Kisses," "I Was Accused of Adultery" and "Betrayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Big Business | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...Margaret Culkin Banning, author and Vassar graduate says: some 1100 magazines now being sold have no other purpose but that of "pictorial prostitution...

Author: By David W. Cudhea and Ronald P. Kriss, S | Title: 'Banned in Boston'--Everything Quiet? | 12/5/1952 | See Source »

After school and college (St. Francis Xavier's, New York Law School) he began haunting Tin Pan Alley. He scribbled song lyrics for years. He was 28 years old before his Uncle James Roon marched him down to a Tammany boss, Charles W. ("Cash & Carry") Culkin, and got him elected to the State Assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Late Mayor | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

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