Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Endeavorists. Leopold Schepp, Manhattan coconut importer, known as "The Coconut King,"* last week set aside $2,500,000 to found a most original organization. It will enroll boys of between 12 and 16, who will sign a pledge to abstain from bad habits, particularly alcohol, to comply with the laws of any country they may happen to be in, to treat their companions kindly, to make themselves better men for the women they are going to marry. If they keep the pledge for two years, they will receive from $100 to $200. They will be called ''Endeavorists." Said Mr. Schepp...
...public has come to form an extra-judicial jury which demands that its decisions be enforced. In order to pronounce an unpopular sentence on Leopold and Loeb the judge was forced to take preventive measures against personal assault. And the nation is so sure of its decision (based on newspaper evidence) against Rescoe Arbuckle, that his jury acquittal has done nothing to remove the official ban on his films throughout the country. "Vanity Fair's", satire is amply justified. The public never admit's being wrong, and it is little, concerned to give an unpopular man a chance...
...Tuesday Mr. Clarence S. Darrow will be given a luncheon, at which he will speak on "Crime and Punishment." Mr. Darrow is considered one of the most brilliant criminal and corporation lawyers in the United States. He came into especial prominence through his defense of Loeb and Leopold last summer. The attendance at this luncheon will be limited to the first 200 Union members who sign up at the newsstand of the Union...
...attended, last summer, the meeting of the American Bar Association in London (TIME, Aug. 4, et. seq.) were impressed with the way in which trials take place in England-in the court room and not in the newspapers. This experience, together with the publicity which attended the trial of Leopold and Loeb, is said to have induced the present stand of the members of the Chicago...
...Germans from Nieuport to Dixmude. The Belgian army, which had been retreating in disorder, had time to remarshall; Geeraert was credited, doubtless justly, with having helped to save it from destruction. Last Christmas Day, when he seemed at the point of death, he was decorated with the Order of Leopold...