Word: toolan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Jimmy - presumably on the strength of the $50,000 campaign contribution-was made U.S. Minister to Canada, the Cromwells' domestic relations continued to deteriorate. Said the Cromwell counsel, State Senator John E. Toolan: "She humiliated him greatly by her indifference" to the responsibilities of a diplomat's wife even though she dutifully joined him in such chores as inspecting a Canadian gold mine (see cut). Her "conduct and her carryings on" were "shameful and shocking...
Back in New Jersey, added Senator Toolan, Mrs. Cromwell subjected her husband to "the acme of refined cruelty . . . when Mr. Cromwell's valet . . . was compelled to wait several hours . . . because Mr. Cromwell's bedroom was occupied by his successor in his wife's affections." A deposition from Mrs. Stotesbury stated that her daughter-in-law frequently trav eled without Jimmy, "and with companions of which my son deeply disapproved...
James H. R. Cromwell's lawyers trained their guns on Doris Duke's Reno divorce decree. In New Jersey's Chancery Court, New Jersey State Senator John E. Toolan, Cromwell attorney, charged that Mrs. Cromwell had 1) slighted her 1940 official duties as U.S. Minister Cromwell's wife at Ottawa, 2) charged falsely that Jimmy was trying to get his hands on a $7,000,000 fund he had disinterestedly urged her to found for the ". . . relief of the underprivileged," and 3) reached "the acme of refined cruelty . . . when Mr. Cromwell's valet . . . was compelled...