Word: saneness
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...French Socialists whose support is needed to cement a strong Herriot Cabinet majority. Taking a chance that the Socialists would not seriously oppose him, M. Herriot called by arrangement on new French President Albert Lebrun, was asked to form a Cabinet and produced, 15 hours later, the following safe & sane slate of predominantly Radical-Socialist tabbies...
...Pittsburgh socialite from electrocution for the shooting of Architect Stanford White. Madman Thaw declared himself bankrupt, but said to Dr. Jelliffe, "Stick along, I'll pay you when I'm released" (from the Matteawan State Hospital at Beacon, N. Y.). Last week Dr. Jelliffe, 66, sued free & sane Mr. Thaw, 61, for $10,000 back fees. Said U. S. District Judge Alfred Conkling Coxe: "Doctor, you are in a tough spot. I would like to see you get your money. But the cause of action is plainly outlawed...
...contrast to the attitude of pressmen and politicians, the court and the University have been sane and dignified in their treatment of the incident. The district attorney finally recovered from his first flights of fancy and treated the defendants with sensible geniality. The University acted properly in putting on probation men, who continued to cause disturbance after they were warned by officials. Now that legal sanction has been given the settlement of the case, the memory of the Great Harvard Riot of 1932 may fade with the memory of a beautiful Spring...
...From Los Angeles Drs. Thomas James Orbison and Edward Huntington Williams, frequent participants in Pacific Coast criminal trials, were summoned to testify for the defense. Alienist Orbison swore that Lieut. Massie was suffering from "delirium with ambulatory automatism" at the time of the shooting but that he was quite sane now. Dr. Williams declared that Lieut. Massie's glands were responsible for his unbalanced condition, that he had been temporarily afflicted with "chemical insanity or shock amnesia." Both experts agreed that his troubles had been brought on by intense worry about his wife and that his symptoms could...
...days the trial was delayed while the prosecution rounded up some alienists of its own to swear with equal positiveness that Lieut. Massie was sane when Kahahawai was shot. Lawyer Darrow would not allow Dr. Joseph Catton and Paul Bowers, both also of California, to examine his client. But that did not prevent the pair from testifying after a perusal of the court record...