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Cartoonists pillory their victims more cruelly, and at a greater risk of libel, than the most unscrupulous of picture editors. Last November, TIME reproduced a damning pen sketch of W. E. D. Stokes, Manhattan realtor, done by Artist Marsh of the Daily News at the time of Mr. Stokes' divorce suit...
...Jennings, former train robber, ex-evangelist, onetime politician and lately realtor of Venice, Calif., testified that he had had conversations with the late Jake Hamon, Republican National Committeeman from Oklahoma, in which Hamon had said: 1) that he bought the nomination of Harding in 1920 for $1,000,000; 2) that the late Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania had received $250,000; 3) that Will Hays, Harry Daugherty and another man had each had $25,000; 4) that the New York delegation had been "very expensive"; 5) that Hamon had expected to become Secretary of the Interior and that...
George H. Babbitt, butter-and-egg man of Tiffin, Ohio, and cousin to the prominent realtor about whom Mr. Sinclair Lewis wrote a book, comes to Manhattan for the Fodder Products Convention. With him comes Mrs. Babbitt and all the little Babbitts...
Five years ago a wealthy Manhattan realtor sued his wife for divorce. The charges were filth. The case was tried before a judge (no jury) and the decision was against the husband. But before the decision could be signed, the judge was elevated to a higher bench, and the case had to be retried. It is now on trial before a jury. The man was William Earl Dodge Stokes; and his wife, Helen Elwood Stokes. It is estimated that they have spent over $1,000,000 on the case. They cover each other with mud. The public applauds...
Somewhat of New York's old community spirit was visible in a movement set afoot by Joseph P. Day (realtor) to capture the Democratic National Convention of 1924. In all its history Manhattan has had but one such gathering, and that 50 years...