Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes before ten one morning last week in his chambers on the sixth floor of Chicago's old Federal Court Building. Judge James Herbert Wilkerson initiated the Northern Illinois judicial district into a new custom by donning the first black robes ever to be worn in Chicago. Then he stepped into the courtroom to open case No. 26,900, the United States of America v. Samuel Insull and 16 codefendants. The charge: using the mails to defraud in the selling of $143,000,000 of securities in the Insull-controlled Corporation Securities...
Short resumes of the topic will be given by Charles B. Feibleman '36, secretary of the Debating Council, and David Fuss 3L, and then the meeting will be turned over to the audience for open discussion from the floor...
...Fifth Floor. Around the Herald Tribune's editorial offices and in the city room a woman is seldom seen. With rare exceptions, City Editor Stanley Walker has small use for women reporters. Of various reasons and prejudices, perhaps the most tangible is his conviction that newswomen lack versatility and are practically useless on police stories. His only female reporter is Emma Bugbee, who is indispensable for keeping tabs on Mrs. Roosevelt in Washington and out. In the sport department Janet Owen was hired, at Mrs. Reid's insistence, to cover women's games. There are no others...
...curious neurosis afflicts the fifth floor, a misogyny born of nightmarish fear that some noon the staff will arrive to find a woman as editor. It is not due to any persistent interference by Mrs. Reid, who rarely meddles visibly in news matters, but to the feeling that she could interfere if she would. All Herald Tribune editorial men are far more acutely conscious of Mrs. Reid, although they may not see her for a full month, than they are of bald, likable, easy-going Ogden Mills Reid whose office is on their own floor. A contributing factor is that...
...Bruno Hauptmann stored his car and where police first found $13,750 of the Lindbergh ransom money. By demolishing the building stick-by-stick and then burrowing into the ground below, police last week found another $840 in "hot" cash. Pauline Rauch, the Hauptmanns' landlady, rented them the top floor of her house, but Hauptmann paid for most of the material and built the nearby garage himself...