Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accusing him not merely of making editorial capital of the case, but of actually conspiring to steal the Lindbergh child. Asking $150,000 for libel, Mr. Oursler announced that this fantastic charge was contained in a long rigmarole which Mrs. Macfadden allegedly wrote and dispatched last June to New Jersey's harried Governor Harold Giles Hoffman. The editor's lawyers complained that...
...calibre of petit juries. Feminist drives for jury rights in New York State began 15 years ago, but each time the Legislature allowed bills broadening the statutes to die in committee. In 1931 Bar Association groups fought the proposal, said lawyers had "difficulty in talking to women jurors." New Jersey has permitted mixed juries since 1921, advertised the fact when four women sat on the jury which heard the case of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Last week in Newark the New Jersey League of Women Voters opened a school for jurors. This week the first all-woman jury ever...
Frank Hague Jr., 30, son of New Jersey's Democratic Boss, passed his State bar examinations...
Feted at the 128th Anniversary banquet of Philadelphia's Union Society for the Detection of Horse Thieves and Recovery of Stolen Horses & Other Property, New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman was docked 15? for violating the club's rule against smoking...
Being a Lady, Elinor Glyn has not told everything. Locked away in her diaries, the "unvarnished truth" is still imprisoned. But in Romantic Adventure she has let out some, after giving it a ladylike shellacking. Born on the Island of Jersey of Scotch-Canadian parents, Elinor Glyn (nee Sutherland) spent her early childhood in Canada in an atmosphere of "aristocratic exclusiveness" which she admits was "already nearly a century out of date" but which stood her in good stead in her lifelong pursuit of Romance. Elinor's older sister (afterwards Lady Duff-Gordon) was considered the beauty...