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...ambitious, however; wanted to emulate the success of Michael Dowling, bank president of Olivet, Minn., who had lost both his legs and both his arms* at the age of 16, of Judge Corliss of Texas who lost both arms at the shoulders and then progressed to a county judgeship...
...while still studying law, he bought the Williams County Gazette. He was admitted to the bar; he married; he was elected Probate Judge of Williams County, Ohio. A few months later, still in his mid-twenties, he resigned his judgeship and enlisted as a private in the 14th Ohio Infantry. He fought in 43 battles, was under fire 123 days, was six times cited for gallantry in action and was promoted step by step to the rank of Brigadier General...
...discouraged him by their : technicalities and sophistries that he attempted suicide, how the revolver back" missed as a fire and moral he made reformer of his the "come law. In order to get the radical reformer out of national politics, his party, in 1900, gave him a vacant Judgeship. Then Lindsey began creating a Juvenile Court, which, a decade later, was world-known. Many reforms accompanied it : a law giving orphans the right to $2,000 of an estate before creditors can touch it; a law making it impossible to send a child under 16 to jail or to charge...
Shortly thereafter Judge Hirsch marries his mistress, Gretel, who has been living with the Hirsch family. "Mother does not speak to Gretel." Meyer's political career is ended by the scandal. But he clings to the judgeship and he lives in "Allright-niks Row, Riverside Drive. . . . The Ghetto called anyone who was well off-one who is all right in this world, that is, well fixed- allrightniks." Meyer is well fixed-a great beast of a man. "Haunch, paunch and jowl" his enemies had called him. It pierced his hide a little, that name. He remembered it in critical...
...opening of a bye-election in the Warwick and Leamington division. There were three candidates: Labor, the Countess of Warwick; Liberal, George Nicholls, farm worker; Conservative, Captain Anthony Eden, soon to become related by marriage to the Countess of Warwick. The vacancy occurred by the elevation to a judgeship of Sir Ernest Pollock...