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...wrote to Dorothy Dix, Anne Hirst, Beatrice Fairfax, et al., to ask what to do about a boy of eleven who was unstrung, disobedient and disrespectful, who stole and refused to do homework. (She took these symptoms from an actual case, whose real trouble, she explains, was that he was unloved.) Some suggested punishment or a stiff school far from home. Beatrice Fairfax sternly warned against psychiatry. Elsie Robinson (author of I Wanted Out) gave what Mrs. Steiner considers the only ethical answer: "The problem of a disobedient child is far too delicate and complicated to be solved...
...this became known to blue-eyed, baby-faced Byron Hirst, 31, the new county attorney. He also heard that the mayor was in on the take, and warned him: "I'm not interested in being a conquering hero around here, but everybody is beginning to think you're a crook." Finally Hirst set a trap. He got the buxom Negro madam of the "Black and Tan Club" to insist on paying off to the mayor and police chief in person. Hirst's men watched through a peephole, recorded the transaction on a dictograph. Last week Attorney Hirst...
...Fulton courthouse, was Gene Milligan, son of Pendergast-busting U. S. District Attorney Maurice M. Milligan. Keynoter: U. S. Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Liberal-Independents, meeting in the chapel, heard Socialist Professor Maynard Krueger. Battle broke out among the Republicans, housed in the gymnasium, when Missouri U.'s Hirst Mendenhall, a cousin of Herbert Hoover, tried to get elected convention chairman, was defeated by Westminster's John Stone. Their keynoter was former Missouri Governor Arthur M. Hyde...
...known a Jewish Viceroy of India, Lord Reading; a Jewish Master of the Rolls, Sir George Jessel; a Jewish Home Secretary, Lord Samuel; and a Jewish Governor General of Australia, Sir Isaac Isaacs. Jewish peers who swore allegiance to George VI at his Coronation were Lords Rothschild, Bearsted, Mancroft, Hirst, Swaythling, Reading and Duveen...
Married. Michael Whitney Straight, 23, son of the late Willard Dickerman Straight, founder of the New Republic and Asia, and of Mrs. Leonard Knight Elm-hirst, queen of Dartington Hall, vast educational experiment in Devonshire, England; and Belinda Booth Crompton, 19; in Wilton...