Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Lewis Stimson, pillar of the New York Bar, was startled one day in 1919 to learn that his sister-in-law had been clapped into a Washington jail. She had, of course, done nothing disgraceful. "Votes for women" was a fashionable as well as a militant movement then and Mrs. Elizabeth ("Lil") White Rogers had only been doing what a number of other strong-minded ladies then thought necessary and honorable-picketing Woodrow Wilson in the White House. Dr. John Rogers, famed Manhattan surgeon, college mate (Yale '87) of Mr. Stimson (Yale '88), went and bailed...
...Eight feminist ticket sellers in New York's subway sacrificed six days' pay to attend the convention, to plead for industrial equality...
...White House in peaceful mood went a delegation led by Mrs. Stephen Pell of New York to ask President Hoover's assistance in their crusade...
...yellow-jacketed book, In the Reign of Rothstein, appeared. Rothstein-Mathematician of Crime was published serially in a New York daily. Throughout the autumnal mayoralty campaign, candidates aspiring to Mayor Walker's desk filled the newspapers with accusations that Tammany Hall was afraid to prosecute the Rothstein case because Tammany men were too intimately connected with Rothstein's world...
...spectator at the trial was the Lord Bishop of Aberdeen, clad in black knee breeches, black gaiters. Another spectator: Edgar Wallace of England, author of many crime books, who said: "It is an open secret in New York that Rothstein was killed by a 'hophead' [narcotics addict] whom he owed an insignificant...