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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...release of Pomeroy. She charged that his crime was worse than that of Loeb and Leopold, that he was unregenerate, that in his cell he had skinned alive a kitten. From jail Pomeroy hired a lawyer, filed a $5,000 libel, was awarded damages of $1 which he never collected, preferring to hold the court order for payment as a "vindication." In his cell he learned several languages, wrote poetry, was called "Grandpa" by other convicts. In 1923 he was supposed to have speculated by mail in the stock market, plunging on Moon Motors, Ventura Oil. When he left jail...
...have never loved money for its own sake. ... I have tried to make money that it might be an instrument of service...
...succeeded. The prize clipping related how the Brown Chief of Police had paid $7 to recover his watch from a pawnshop, whither it had been brought by a thief who had sneaked it from the room in which its owner was sleeping; also how the Brown Chief never did get back the trousers which held the watch which was in the room in which he was sleeping...
...Before I took office in 1921 I had never been actively connected with the Prohibition movement. I am now, but was not then, a teetotaler. I had liquor in my own home in California and used it, in moderation, of course...
...America was laughing at us because Queen Marie during her visit to the United States forgot to mention that she never paid her motoring bill. In America the Queen's photographs were used to boost toilet creams and perfumes. Even her private diary was taken from a drawer in a dressing table by an American dancing girl and published...