Word: misconduct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assailed for championing "companionate marriage," ousted from office for "campaign irregularities," famed Benjamin Barr Lindsey of Denver was last week disbarred for "professional misconduct" by the Colorado State Supreme Court. While Denver Juvenile Court Judge- an office which he made nation-famed-he accepted a "gift" of some $40,000 from socialite Helen Elwood Stokes, in return helped her "as friend and counsellor" to break the will of her late husband, Hotelman W. E. D. Stokes. Said the disbarring judge: "By taking fees while judge, he was false to his oath both as a judicial officer and as an attorney...
Brother Gus last week brought in Washington a libel suit for $1,000,000 damages against Mrs. Willebrandt and Current News Features, Inc., which had syndicated her articles. He said he felt such a charge of official misconduct might injure his reputation. In St. Louis he moved to tie up payments to Mrs. Willebrandt by the Post-Dispatch, though this paper, in publishing her article, had deleted from the sentence quoted above all reference to Gus Nations...
Divorced. Thomas L. Fess of Manhattan, wholesale druggist (Lehn & Fink), son of Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio; by Mrs. Marguerite Fess, onetime secretary to the Senator; in Manhattan; on the grounds of drunkenness and misconduct...
That is to say, the Jury absolved Miss Adele of any specific misconduct, although the Judge had trespassed the bounds of legal propriety to accuse her in general...
...Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Contrera appeared before Judge Gemmill to secure a divorce. Antonio Contrera, 25, charged misconduct. Maria M. Contrera charged cruelty. A pretty 13-year-old Mexican, she carried with her into the court a doll...