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...wide tree-lined avenues running sedately north and south, its citizens moving soberly along them on Sunday mornings to Denver's many churches. Like most second-generation frontier towns, Denver is strongly moral. It has a stern respect for conventional art, religion, home, womanhood. When Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, after brilliant service in the Juvenile Court, declared that scarcely 10% of Denver's high-school girls were virgins and campaigned nationally for Companionate Marriage, Denver cast him out, has all but forgotten him. Denverites like direct action. Last week six of them pledged half a million dollars' worth of property...
...Ladies' Home Journal Anthony Comstock Mary Pickford Necking Judge Ben Lindsey Boy Friend Carrie Chapman Catt
...dismission until later during the two-week convention. Back in their hotels, the delegates talked excitedly. Alert newshawks heard them describe the opening sermons as "poor taste," "party politics," and "Jesuitical cunning." Some felt that Bishop Furse's reference to companionate marriage was "a discourteous slap against Judge Lindsey in his home town...
...Yale" bulldog of the collection is Harry W. Lindsey's Maple Springs Laddy...
...sent to Vassar (1908), did postgraduate work at Columbia, developed a consuming interest in progressive social causes. She did volunteer settlement work, researched the cost of living, helped locally with Belgian relief, returned to Denver to serve as chief probation officer of the Juvenile Court under Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (since ousted). For her liberal views her father had scant sympathy. He used to mock her efforts to reform Industry and Labor. When he died in 1927, Miss Josephine inherited a large block of Rocky Mountain stock. She bought more, bought control of the company in 1928. Soon thereafter Rocky...