Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room went Editor Ray Long of William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan; Joseph Anthony of the Cosmopolitan Book Co.; Arthur S. Draper, an editor of the New York Herald Tribune. Reporters were held at arm's length by a hotel detective. Good Friend Frank Waterman Stearns was present as a smiling but non-communicative buffer. One man. seeking an audience but turned away, sent up by a waiter to the Coolidge suite a silver salt shaker but no explanation. Mr. Coolidge was puzzled...
...although "Five & Ten" was rapidly replacing "Jones Law" as the measure's name, Senator Jones tried to escape his misery by calling in company. He pointed out that the measure had had a co-author in the House of Representatives, Congressman Gale H. Stalker of New York, who was being deprived of his share of the credit. In fact the Stalker Bill, he said, had been introduced nine days before the Jones Bill. Insisted Mr. Jones: "I hope the proper term will be used in referring to this . . . legislation and it will be known as the Jones-Stalker...
Senator Jones's unhappiness over the Five & Ten Act was increased last week when New York's volunteer committee of lawyers to defend Five & Ten victims unearthed and republished a statement made by Senator Jones in 1921 on the Senate floor. He had said...
...York Evening Post surveyed the U.S. on the Five & Ten last week. Its sub-headlines told the story: "Plenty in Chicago"; "High Frisco Prices"; "Detroit Trusts Grow"; "New Orleans Still Wet"; "Baltimore Gets Cautious"; "Florida Doesn't Worry"; "Millennium in Boston"; "Warfare in Los Angeles"; "Albany Much Drier"; "Denver Bootleggers Scared"; "Profiteering in Cincinnati"; "Washington Dealers Careful"; [Texas] "Not Jones But Hoover"; "Deaths in St. Louis"; "Corn in Kansas City"; "Moonshine in Louisville"; "Pittsburgh Dealers Quit"; "Cleveland Undismayed"; "Rhode Island Calms Down"; "Indianapolis Unafraid"; "Atlanta Little Affected...
Less than a year later Whitehurst died, leaving an estate of $280,000 and no will. Last week the Maryland Court of Appeals decided that this marriage was valid under the laws of New York, that Claire Ulrich was, by common law, Mrs. Whitehurst. As his widow, and over the objections of his mother and brothers, she was entitled to administer and share in his estate...