Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stand: "I deny under oath that I committed the offense with which I am charged, or that I attempted to bribe the police officer who unwarrantably arrested me . . . I am writing a book dealing with vice conditions in the West End, and had gone to Hyde Park to gather data at first hand. I call the Court's attention to the fact that my works, Queer People and Diversions of a Prime Minister, are well known. . . As I entered the park I was accosted by a young woman, and we sat down upon two chairs placed under a tree...
...Marlborough Police Court, London, appeared Sir Basil Thomson, famed British War-time Director of Intelligence, to answer charges of having misconducted himself with a young girl in Hyde Park (TIME...
...bobby who arrested Sir Basil testified: "He was violating public decency . . . sitting on a park bench with his arms around the woman's neck . . . and all that. . . . He admitted to me that he was Sir Basil Thomson and said: "If my friends find out about this I am ruined. 'If you can overlook this, I'll make it possible for you to leave the force tomorrow...
...Douglas Straight, onetime Inspector General of Police in India, and the noted London barrister, Harry Higgins, testified that Sir Basil had often expressed to them his intention of going to Hyde Park to seek material for his book. The Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, Chairman of the Midland Bank and onetime (1911-15) Home Secretary, joined with Vice Admiral Sir Reginald Hall in testifying to the "irreproachable character of Sir Basil...
James Lawrence '01, of Boston and Hyde Park, has been selected by directors of the Harvard Alumni Association, as Chief Marshal of the alumni at Commencement next June, it was announced yesterday. Mr. Lawrence was nominated by members of the class of 1901 who will celebrate their twenty-fifth anniversary of graduation from the College at Commencement this year, and in accordance with the tradition will furnish the Chief Marshal...