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...lawmakers' blue-uniformed doorkeepers are called "court officers," but their duties are nebulous. They do, however, have salaries, more than $18,000 annually-nearly as much as the legislators themselves. A few are former representatives, and many more are friends and relatives of lawmakers. Claims Representative Richard Voke of Chelsea: "No one got there other than by knowing someone. Can you imagine," he asks, "stuffing the payroll at a time like this...
...speeding Ivory Coast diplomat passing on the wrong side, the police waved on the African at the flash of his passport, but corralled the newsman as a "trouble maker." Realizing that immunity can be abused, British Ambassador Sir Frank Roberts has forbidden his staff to in voke it in traffic cases. More of the same could perhaps bring about a thaw in Bonn's little cold...
Jerome J. Sullivan, a resident of the West End, read of the court action in the newspaper and recognized the money in dispute to be his. Since he knew how the money was wrapped and was familiar with other details of the case, Superior Court Judge Edward J. Voke declared him rightful owner...
...requested $100 to cover its lawyers' fees, but that compensation was refused by Judge Voke...
...hitting his elderly aunt over the head with a bottle when she attempted to intercede in an argument he was having with a girl friend, Christopher J. Chisholm, Jr., 1, of Massachusetts ave., Cambridge, was sentenced to six months in jail today by Judge Edward J. Voke in Middlesex Superior Court. from the Boston Evening American, January...