Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last December the Reno courts awarded Doris Duke Cromwell a divorce on grounds of cruelty. Jimmy Cromwell marched straight into New Jersey's Chancery Court. There, last week, he finally succeeded in having the divorce declared null & void in New Jersey-where Mrs. Cromwell has some $10,000,000 worth of property. Grounds for the court ruling: 1) Doris Duke Cromwell had never become a bona fide resident of Nevada, even though she bought a house there; 2) the Nevada court had improperly concealed the evidence in the case. The decision made the validity of Reno divorces in other...
Back in New Jersey, added Senator Toolan, Mrs. Cromwell subjected her husband to "the acme of refined cruelty . . . when Mr. Cromwell's valet . . . was compelled to wait several hours . . . because Mr. Cromwell's bedroom was occupied by his successor in his wife's affections." A deposition from Mrs. Stotesbury stated that her daughter-in-law frequently trav eled without Jimmy, "and with companions of which my son deeply disapproved...
What Gentlemen Don't Do. Doris Duke Cromwell's behavior, her husband charged, was the chief cause of his humiliating defeat when he ran for U.S. Senator from New Jersey in 1940. During the summer, Mrs. Cromwell had been ill at Shangrila, her lush Hawaiian estate with an orchid-hung solarium and a $20,000 hydraulically elevated diving board. When Mrs. Cromwell's secretary learned that Politician Cromwell planned to rush to his wife's bedside, she telephoned from Hawaii to warn him that he would not be welcome -that he would, in fact, be locked...
When Doris later brought up the subject of divorce, Jimmy said: "You know you have no grounds. It is I who have suffered the onus of cruelty after you wrecked my political campaign...." Then, he charged, Mrs. Cromwell confessed adultery by proposing that he divorce her in New Jersey "because you have sufficient grounds." In cold, virtuous tones, Jimmy said he replied: "Gentlemen don't divorce their wives in this country...
Bruce Barton, advertising tycoon, onetime G.O.P. Congressman, ranged himself alongside the Sheriff of Nottingham. In a speech before some 370 be-orchided New Jersey socialites, he found a new name for Franklin Roosevelt. Said he: the New Deal's "morals have never risen above the level of Robin Hood, who defended his thefts from the rich on the ground that he gave to the poor...