Word: weeklies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assailed for championing "companionate marriage," ousted from office for "campaign irregularities," famed Benjamin Barr Lindsey of Denver was last week disbarred for "professional misconduct" by the Colorado State Supreme Court. While Denver Juvenile Court Judge- an office which he made nation-famed-he accepted a "gift" of some $40,000 from socialite Helen Elwood Stokes, in return helped her "as friend and counsellor" to break the will of her late husband, Hotelman W. E. D. Stokes. Said the disbarring judge: "By taking fees while judge, he was false to his oath both as a judicial officer and as an attorney...
Ever since the murder 13 months ago of Arnold Rothstein, one of its most amiable gambler-racketeers (TIME, Dec. 24). Manhattan has been kept acutely Rothstein-conscious. Last week, when the State's sole suspect in hand-burly, big-jawed Gambler George A. McManus-was acquitted, the Rothstein spotlight seemed likely to flicker out, leaving another famed Manhattan murder in unsolved darkness...
...would it not enhance services for the dead? A fixed hour might be set for the nationwide broadcasting of funeral music and nationwide funerals might be timed accordingly. A resolution urging such procedure was introduced at a meeting of the New Jersey State Funeral Directors' Association, held last week in Camden, by John S. Martin, mortician, delegate from Elizabeth...
...Last week the spotlight of world attention focused on another U. S. diplomat. With his pockets stuffed with authorizations from President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson, Jay Pierrepont Moffat, U. S. Chargé D'Affaires at Berne,* traveled from London to Geneva to sign World Court articles of adherence once more...
Three Kings and three Queens made a full house in Sandringham, Norfolk, last week when King Haakon & Queen Maud of Norway, King Christian & Queen Alexandrine of Denmark sat down to take pink milk with King George & Queen Mary of Britain...