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Five years ago Paul Bonynge, New York lawyer, first cousin of onetime Congressman Robert William Bonynge from Colorado, ran for the post of county judge in Long Island's suburban Nassau County. Suave, patrician Paul Bonynge candidly told his constituents even in those Prohibition days that now and then, when he wanted a drink, he took it. He was beaten. Campaigning again on a platform "never to put a man in jail for things I do myself," he was elected in 1932 a justice of New York's Supreme Court (equivalent to a superior court of original jurisdiction...
Last week before Justice Bonynge came the case of Percy C. Reed, owner of the Nassau Kennel Club, operator of dog races at the Mineola fairgrounds. Year ago Mr. Reed was accused of gambling, but the case was dismissed for want of evidence. Mr. Reed now appealed to Justice Bonynge for a declaratory judgment approving his business. Justice Bonynge wrote a decision which made brisk reading. Excerpts: "The plaintiff operates under an ingeniously devised scheme, deliberately contrived to avoid the pitfalls of the Penal Law. In a word, he sells purchase options upon each dog in a race...
Reading over these invitations in his tiny Nassau Street offices, soft-spoken National Commander Lewis Jefferson Gorin of the Veterans of Future Wars grinned with approval. To an impressive list of U. S. dignitaries including President & Mrs. Roosevelt, the Cabinet, National Commander Ray Murphy of the American Legion and National Commander James E. Van Zandt of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, he and fellow-Princetonians mailed the following...
...light which such polls spread upon the mother University. When Rudyard Kipling's "If" is chosen favorite poem year after year, when milk is named as the most popular beverage, when Petty is universally regarded as the favorite artist, we cannot but feel there are evil forces afoot in Nassau. Something, as "favorite-dramatist" Shakespeare once said, is rotten in the state of New Jersey. Certainly the football set-up is not to blame. Coach Crisler came into his share of the boodle and Captain Constable was rail-roaded into several offices with vote reminiscent of the Roosevelt landslide...
Taking a leaf from the record of the recent Princeton-Harvard-Yale student conference at Nassau, the Summer School this year plans a program of round table sessions much like those employed by the College papers for their discussions of national affairs...