Word: kernochan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt house on East 65th Street gave her daughter in marriage to John Boettiger. A clerk from the Marriage License Bureau had brought a license to the house shortly after 8 a. m. There it was filled out by John Boettiger, 34, and Anna Roosevelt Dall, 28. Justice Frederic Kernochan, friend and fishing companion of the President, performed the ceremony. It was hardly over when the telephone rang and Father Roosevelt gave his congratulations to bride & groom. Fifteen minutes later the President's daughter was speeding away, her heart aflutter, in John Boettiger's automobile...
...Special Sessions court of three judges found the men guilty, although Chief Justice Frederic Kernochan, old friend and yachting companion of President Roosevelt, argued that exposure of the body might be willful without being lewd. Said Justice Kernochan: "I don't feel that the law at present, enacted a number of years ago, is sufficiently broad enough to render a conviction. It is possible, should the Legislature see fit, to stop this practice [of nudism] and I think it should...
...session. Not one political adviser accompanied him. For company he had his fishing cronies, practically the same group who went with him on the same vessel into the Gulf Stream a month before his inaugural last year. Nearest among them to a politician was Manhattan's Frederic Kernochan whom Mayor Walker continued in office as Special Sessions Justice. He has always frequented polite society as few Tammanyites are privileged to do. When in 1932 he sent a check for $50 to Tammany's campaign chest, Tammany returned it to him as "too cheap." Last year...
...rest before taking up his duties in Washington. After that cruise, when the party returned to Miami, Madman Joe Zangara emptied his revolver at the President-Elect, mortally felled Mayor Cermak of Chicago who stood beside his car. In the car behind sat Vincent Astor, Raymond Moley and Frederic Kernochan. A few moments before as the cars crept through the throng Mr. Astor had said to the others of his great and good friend: "Any crank might take a shot at him. I don't like this. It's too dangerous...
...that the country heard last week from its President-elect, fishing in the Bahamas, was brief, light-hearted radiograms flashed from Vincent Astor's Nourmahal to Miami. Sample: "We are anchored off Andros Island and have good fishing. [New York's Justice Frederic] Kernochan fought a 15-round draw with a shark. Both escaped. All well. Having wonderful trip." A Secret Service man was recovering from sunburn. Mr. Roosevelt had lost a "fish as big as a whale." Commodore Astor was the "perfect host...