Word: delacey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...services." Finding that the services consisted partly of help in securing a $2,200,000 RFC loan and $1,800,000 PWA grant for the project, the committee balked. The Georgia House passed a resolution calling for cancellation of the Welfare Department's contract with Robert & Co. Representative Delacey Allen baldly accused Chip Robert of "stealing" $45,000 of the taxpayers' money, snorted: "I am reliably informed that cities and counties all over Georgia were told by Mr. Robert and his representatives that if they wanted to get Federal funds for their public projects they had better employ...
...Harold LeClair Ickes would have the last word upon his return from California. Meanwhile, Secretary Morgenthau issued a statement explaining that Chip's departure from the Treasury had been "voluntary and under honorable circumstances." Aggrieved Chip filed and then withdrew a $50,000 suit for slander against Representative Delacey Allen. Hot-tempered Delacey Allen offered to meet Chip Robert "with or without gloves" in the stadium at Georgia Tech's Grant Field, admission at $5 a head and the proceeds to "go toward meeting the State debt...
...James A. DeLacey, proprietor of Dunster House Bookshop, 20 South Street, announces the publication of a bibliography of the writings of Edwin Arlington Robinson, ex '95, prepared by Robert Johns Bulkley '32, and Lucius Beebe '27. The bibliography, which contains mention of all Robinson first editions and collector's items to date, includes more than fifty books and also establishes for the first time the status of the pirated edition of the missing canto of "Lancelot", published here under the title "Three Poems" in 1928. This is probably the rarest of all Robinson items, exceeding in scarcity even the famous...
More than 200 congratulatory letters and telegrams from all over the country have been received during the past two days by James A. Delacey, manager of Dunster House bookshop, the remission of whose jail sentence for selling a copy of D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterly's Lover" in Superior Criminal Court at East Cambridge last week has attracted nation wide interest, and more messages are arriving at his office hourly...
...Watch and Ward" were successful in their efforts to convict Delacey; public condemnation of the methods employed by this organization, self-created to guide the morals of a Commonwealth, was successful in keeping Mr. Delacey from jail. In this one case the society has given ample evidence of its lack of excuse for existence. A sense of justice can in no way condone the immoral means of the "Watch and Ward" to put an end to Immorality. Mr. Delacey now stands acquitted and his accusers sufficiently stigmatized in the eyes of the world. The only hope remaining...