Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gardenia of the Law." Grover Whalen got his first name because he was born in New York City on June 2, 1886, the marriage day of President Grover Cleveland. In 1917, he hitched his wagon to the rising star of Mayor John F. Hylan, became a figure in politics and a great success as a civic greeter (of the late Queen Marie of Rumania, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, hundreds of other personages). After that Grover Whalen slipped easily into a $100,000-a-year berth at Wanamaker's store, returned to civic affairs in the Mayor Walker regime when...
...Killed Hitler: 1) told the press he had received no less than three letters threatening him with death and worse if he did not withdraw the book from circulation; 2) got published in Liberty another serial about his wife's disappearance; 3) learned that Mother-in-Law Amy Otis Earhart, 61, was getting ready to move from Boston, Mass, to Berkeley, Calif, so she could be near the spot (Oakland) where her daughter took off on her last flight...
...Newcastle, England, an importunate salesman sold Mrs. E. Renwick a refrigerator, had the law on her when she was unable to pay the installments. Snorted the indignant judge: "The only way to treat people who badger for sales is to take them by the scruff of the neck and kick them as hard as possible on the soft part of their anatomy." Verdict: Mrs. Renwick can have 2,160 years...
...Vermont poor boy, Thad Stevens was admitted to the bar in John Wilkes Booth's birthplace, Bel Air, Md., practiced law in York, Pa. He had the tough, narrow tenacity and discernment of the perfect sectional and sectarian infighter. As far as he saw, he saw clearly; as far as he thought, he thought honestly and without sentiment. His passionate sympathy for the Negro found fearless expression in his years of intimacy with his mulatto housekeeper, Lydia Smith, generally accepted as his common-law wife...
Inaugurated three years ago as "an important forward step in legal education," and backed by Supreme Court Jestice William O. Douglas, a joint course coordinating studies at Yale Law School and Harvard's School of Business Administration will be discontinued next year...