Word: elwood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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." Said Jurist Lindsey: "Pure...
...meeting will be followed by a dinner at 6:30 o'clock at which Elwood Kemp Secretary of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League will speak. Mr. Kemp will outline the aims of the organizations he represents and will describe how the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League is planning to help the game...
...enforcement was the subject of the first big speech, by outgoing President Gurney Elwood Newlin of Los Angeles. He took the up-to-date angle: "The resort to lawlessness in enforcing law or seeking to enforce the law is more than casual, in fact, it tends to be habitual...
Elections. To succeed President Gurney Elwood Newlin, the Association elected Henry Upson Sims of Birmingham, Ala. John Howard Voorhees of Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and William Patterson MacCracken Jr. of Chicago were reflected Treasurer and Secretary...
...From this plane dangled a thin rubber hose. While the planes zoomed at 75 miles an hour Lieut. Harry Halverson aboard the Question Mark reached out, grabbed the hose, thrust it into the tanks. Once there was bungling. Gasoline was spilt. Major Carl Spatz, the commander, was burned. Lieut. Elwood Quesada was overcome by fumes. But later a swinging rope conveyed zinc oxide, balm for the Major. Lieut. Quesada, recovered, idled in his berth, read a magazine. Other ropes were swung, provided oranges, oatmeal, coffee. The larder of the Question Mark was stocked at the start with roast chicken...