Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the first week Judge Jacob Gitelman sat on Rochester, N. Y.'s City Court bench in 1934, he laid down the rule that every drunken driver was going to jail. Because one truck driver pleaded that a straight jail sentence would cost him his job, thereby taking away support from a wife and six children, Judge Gitelman sentenced the offender to spend six Sundays in the Monroe County Penitentiary. Legality of Judge Gitelman's experiment was questioned, however, because Section 2188 of New York Law says "once a sentence starts it must not be interrupted." To remove...
Philadelphia police arrested Charles Kemble Butler Wister, 29, son of Novelist Owen Wister, for drunken driving, few hours later arrested the Wister chauffeur, David J. McNaull, for attempting to lure three high-school girls into his automobile...
...news crew to the scene of a fire; when publisher & reporters had fabulous fun at Hearst's house in Sausalito; when famed "Annie Laurie" (Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils), first of the expert Hearst tearjerkers, wrote her classic sob stories about "Little Jim," the crippled child of a drunken prostitute, which drew $20,000 from the pockets of sympathetic Examiner readers; and when incorrigible Reporter Eddie Morphy made San Franciscans weep just as loudly over a destitute orphaned Irish family who existed only in his mind...
...private investigator on a holiday with a drunken sidekick, Roscoe Karns, Overman finds himself following a woman in the holiday spirit, until they stumble across the scene of a crime. For the easy to look at lady is an ex-chanteuse and now wife of Keats College's brilliant mathematician, Professor Barry. Barry has become a corpse, whereat it is brought to light that many of the Faculty members owe gambling debts to him, while he himself was trying to muscle in on the metropolitan numbers racket. The chief oft the numbers racket is a boy fiend of the professor...
Motoring near drab little Uniontown, Pa. one evening last September, the local district attorney and a county detective encountered an automobile careening crazily down the road, stopped it, arrested the driver for drunken driving. He was Frank C. Monaghan, a 64-year-old Uniontown hotel man. The detective took the old man's wheel. The district attorney drove ahead, returned when he saw that the second car was not following. He found the detective staggering down the road, bleeding from a knife wound. Frank Monaghan was hauled to police headquarters for questioning. There that night he died, of "heart...