Word: lindseyism
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...LINDSEY WILLIAMS...
Died. Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, 73, pioneer juvenile-court reformer, champion of companionate marriage; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. In the flaming '20s, his companionate-marriage idea - essentially a proposal for an enlightened attitude on marriage - was sensationally publicized as everything from trial marriage to free love, once led to his ejection from Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, when he shouted back at Bishop Manning, who had just assailed his "propaganda . . . in behalf of lewdness" from the pulpit. Soon after he reached the Denver bench 43 years ago, little Judge Lindsey started reforming...
...Bishop in the Episcopal Church relishes a tussle over principle more than New York's stern, small William Thomas Manning. He has taken on and worsted many a smart tussler, including Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Bertrand Russell...
Culver, a radio expert who was an Army Signal Corps major in World War I; Botanist Harvey E. Stork, an aerial photographer in that war; Dean Lindsey Blayney, a colonel on General Pershing's staff...
Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, one-time tub-thumper for companionate marriage and a Superior Court Justice in Los Angeles, called a halt to a psychopathic hearing in his crowded courtroom, snapped on the radio, announced: "This court will now listen to the greatest madman in the world," tuned in on a rebroadcast of Hitler's Reichstag speech for one-half hour...