Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey of the Denver Juvenile Court was last week served a court order officially ousting him from his position. The order was the result of the Colorado Supreme Court's decision last winter that Judge Lindsey's election in 1924 had been illegal. As Judge Lindsey's opponent, Royal R. Graham, had died since the election, the office was declared vacant and the County Commissioners appointed to it Attorney Robert W. Steele. It was under this man's father, then (1899) Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court that Judge Lindsey first...
While even great and good men have occasionally made sport of Virtue, in every age, it is still venerated with the utmost pomp by a Germanic branch of that famed brotherhood of nobles, The Order of St. John of Jerusalem...
Every knight of St. John swears to "protect women, the orphans, and the weak," and must possess a name untouched by scandal. Last week, in Berlin, there was inaugurated as Grand Master of the Order of St. John a gentleman whose virtue is unsmirched, Prince Oscar Charles Gustav-Adolf von Hohenzollern, 38, fifth son of onetime King and Emperor Wilhelm...
Meanwhile the Kaiser's second son, Prince Eitel Friedrich Christian Charles, a Major General, was Grand Master of the Order of St. John. He had taken to wife the Princess Charlotte of Oldenburg, petite and ravishing as her famed ancestress Queen Louise of Prussia.* Ostensibly this smart and dashing royal couple also lived in a state of virtue suitable to the household of a Grand Master of St. John. Actually their secrets were fashionably half concealed. They had no children, and, not dull, they encouraged a certain very zestful officer of the guards Baron Frieherr von Plettenburg-Mehrum, Plettenburg...
Even so, the Order of St. John did not depose its Grand Master upon such flimsy, hearsay tittle-tattle. At last, in 1926, Princess Charlotte divorced her husband, charging that he had caused her "mental anguish." Presumably this violated his oath to "protect women . . . and weak." A conclave of 'the Order of St. John met secretly, accepted the resignation of Prince Eitel-Friedrich as Grand Master, then declared him "an honorary Knight of St. John...