Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...embarrassing the cinema industry for three weeks with its display of dirty doings, Hollywood's Astor Case was brought to a decent close last week. To Actress Mary Astor, suing her onetime husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, for full custody of their 4-year-old daughter, the Los Angeles Superior Court awarded the child for nine months a year. Before rendering his decision, Judge Goodwin J. Knight called for Miss Astor's diary in which she recorded her irregular love life and which Dr. Thorpe's lawyers tried to use obliquely to disqualify her as a fit mother...
...Anglican communion. Present last week to lay the cornerstone of a chapel dedicated to St. Mary, Mother of God, were Episcopal Suffragan Bishop Samuel Gavitt Babcock of Massachusetts, pious Architect Ralph Adams Cram, Glassman Charles Jay Connick, able Organist Everett Titcomb, and Rev. Spence Burton, U. S. superior of the black-cassocked Cowley Fathers...
Month ago California's Insurance Commissioner Samuel L. Carpenter Jr. and officials of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. of California went into the Los Angeles court of Superior Judge Douglas L. Edmonds. In a 45-minute proceeding the company was, at the request of Commissioner Carpenter, declared insolvent and its assets placed in his care until reorganization could be worked out. In the same breath, a new company called Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. (i.e., without the "of California") was formed to take over its predecessor's business under a management headed by old Pacific Mutual...
Hopping mad, noncancelable policyholders and a group of stockholders rushed into the court of Superior Judge Henry M. Willis, to whom the case had been transferred. Making no secret of their suspicions, policyholders charged that, as late as the first of this year, false financial statements had been issued showing Pacific Mutual $10,000,000 in the black when there was actually a deficit of more than twice that amount, that Amadeo Peter Giannini's Occidental Life Insurance Co. had offered to buy the company for $10,000,000, and keep all policies in force, although Commissioner Carpenter...
Last year Miss Astor gave Dr. Thorpe an uncontested divorce, custody of little Marylyn, a property settlement of $60,000. Last month the dark, willowy young actress suddenly petitioned the Los Angeles Superior Court for full custody of her child, an annulment of her marriage and divorce. Each of these objectives Dr. Thorpe promptly opposed...