Word: palming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later the Judiciary Committee reversed itself by voting (10-to-8) an impeachment resolution. The constitutional "high crimes and misdemeanors" of which the Democratic majority accused Republican Judge Ritter: He granted an exorbitant fee of $75,000 to his onetime Partner Albert L. Rankin as receiver of Whitehall, a Palm Beach hotel, and accepted $4,500 from Rankin in return; he collected $7,500 through other receiverships; he took a $2,000 legal fee while on the bench; he accepted free food, lodging and valet service at the bankrupt hotel of which his sister-in-law was made manager...
...gallery was by far the biggest on the course. She lost, in the final, to Lucille Robinson of Des Moines only when Miss Robinson sank a 6-ft. putt on the third extra hole. It was Patty's fourth major tournament of the winter. In the third, at Palm Beach last fortnight, she lost to "Maureen" in the final, after beating "Glenna" in the second round. The others, the Miami Biltmore Women's Championship and the Women's Champions' Tournament at Punta Gorda...
Into the patio of Palm Beach's No. 1 estate for the No. 1 party of the winter thronged some 400 guests to sip champagne, eat strawberry ice, listen as Banker Edward Townsend Stotesbury celebrated his 87th birthday by rattling a snare drum as he did in the Civil War. A hale, hearty, dapper little man, Host Stotesbury, Philadelphia's richest tycoon, senior partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., was also persuaded to sing his favorite song. The Old Family Toothbrush that Hangs in the Sink...
...Palm Beach season reached its height, Liberty Leaguer Alfred Emanuel Smith became a feted guest comparable to John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill, tenth Duke of Maryborough. Smith hosts included U. S. Steelman Myron Charles Taylor, Lawyer Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, Sportsman Joseph Early Widener. At a fair held by Palm Beach's swank Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, a Presidential straw vote showed: Smith 705, Landon 390, Roosevelt...
Wideman. For "impelling business reasons," Francis James Wideman of West Palm Beach sent the President his resignation as Assistant Attorney General. With the resignation went a memorandum from Attorney General Cummings pointing out that Mr. Wideman had won ten of the eleven cases he argued last year before the Supreme Court. Although the case which he lost was the AAA decision, there came back a note: "This record of Wideman is grand! Congratulate...