Word: waywardly
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...Pitiful, pitiful," groaned his Honor, Justice Norman S. Dike of the New York Supreme Court. Peering over his glasses he surveyed Lena Burlatt, a girl of 17 who had just come out of New York's repository for wayward females, Bedford Reformatory. He learned that Lena's mother had taken her to court one day 18 months ago, on her 16th birthday. Lena's mother had told the judge that Lena "stayed out late." The judge, Magistrate Leo Healy, had forthwith sentenced Lena to one year in Bedford Reformatory. She had been kept there six months overtime...
...Wayward Winnie. Most exciting political move of the week happened outside Parliament. The performer was moon-faced Winston ("Winnie") Churchill, one-time (1924-29) Chancellor of the Exchequer, No. 2 British Conservative, soldier, War correspondent and 100% Tory. Early in the week Stanley Baldwin had given grudging approval of Scot MacDonald's attempt to solve the Indian problem...
...Shoe. Upon one of his judicial doorsteps?the Women's Court? stood 48 bedraggled young girls, eleven of them carrying their babies (illegitimate) wrapped in blankets. They had all come down from Bedford Reformatory, where indigent New York girls who begin their sexual lives too soon are sent as wayward minors. To Chief Magistrate Corrigan's intense embarrassment, the 48 girls and eleven babes had all been released and returned to the Women's Court on the ground, developed during investigation of the police vice squad, that they had all been improperly committed (TIME...
Steuer v. Kresel. While Judge Corrigan was still smarting at being made the squire of 48 wayward dames, Tammany got in its first successful dig at the Seabury investigation. The digger was astute Lawyer Max D. Steuer, good Tammany man, father of a municipal judge. As a special investigator of the notorious Bank of United States failure, Mr. Steuer saw to it that the name of small, smart Isidor Jacob Kresel ? Seabury counsel, onetime director of, lawyer for and borrower from the defunct bank ? was frequently brought into the damning Bank of U. S. testimony. Forthwith, Counsel Kresel...
...girls, 50 of whom were still in the institution, had been induced to plead guilty to charges without a hearing, a direct violation of the Criminal Code which provides that a wayward minor can be committed only ''by competent evidence upon a hearing." Last week Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's only action in face of innumerable scandals was to consider a blanket pardon for all those jailed because magistrates had ignored...