Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually this title needed qualification. A magistrate is as different from a Supreme Court judge as an ordinary bank officer from a financier. And in Ohio that learned, grey-haired jurist. Florence Allen, had be come a justice of the Supreme Court. But what matter? Jean Norris had no grey hairs and was certainly somebody. She loved her work-being called "Your Honor," and tartly telling this male he was overruled, or wisely bidding that bad girl to be good...
Then last year the shadow arose. New York judges high and low, who the people were sure were crooked, began to be proved crooked. The power of Tammany in which Jean Norris had always trusted seemed insufficient to confound the inquisitors. Jean Norris' turn approached...
What brought loudest public condemnation down upon Jean Norris' haughty head was proof that she had altered the steno graphic record of a case which was about to be appealed on the ground of an unfair trial. Mary Disena Labello was up on a prostitution charge. It was getting late in the afternoon. Mary Labello's attorney complained he had been in court since 10 a. m. The official record read as follows...
Addendum: "As Mile Roberte de Neuflize she was well known as the only daughter and heiress of that great Parisian banker, the late Baron Jean de Neuflize, Regent of the Bank of France, and head of one of the most socially distinguished Protestant families in France...
Married. Edward Pearson Warner, onetime (1926-29; Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, editor of Aviation; and Mary Jean Potter, Boston Junior Leaguer; in Brookline, Mass...