Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, last week, a long-simmering Bankruptcy Scandal boiled over. Charges of nepotism, favoritism in awarding receiverships, intimidation of witnesses, were made in Congress against U.S. District Judge Francis Asbury Winslow. Congressman La Guardia of New York called for the kind of investigation, by the House Judiciary Committee, that generally precedes impeachment. Countering, Judge Winslow said it was all "a diabolical plot." The chief citation against him was that he had suspended sentence on a ''crooked bust'' named Meyer Kaplan in return for an "understanding" which, when subsequently not fulfilled, caused Buster Kaplan to be jailed...
Bankruptcies became front-page news in New York early in January when an attorney named David Steinhart, receiver and Republican politician, fled, leaving bankruptcy books $50,000 short. Judge Winslow had sponsored his appointment many times. Steinhart was indicted. Officials chased him; disguised in red whiskers, through Canada. Charles Shongood, U. S. auctioneer, was removed from office, indicted for conspiracy and embezzlement. Panicky, the Federal judges in Manhattan switched bankruptcy cases from personal receivers to the American Exchange Irving Trust Co. A grand jury gathered more evidence...
...President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Charles Evans Hughes named a special committee to scrutinize bankruptcy law administration, "a matter of very grave concern...
...Morrow's poems. Her last, in Scribner's, concluded: Still, like a singing lark, I find Rapture to leave the grass behind. And sometimes standing in a crowd My lips are cool against a cloud. ¶ In the midst of the general good feeling, the fatherly New York Times published a report that the Hero's mother, Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh, returning from Turkey aboard the S. S. President Wilson, was to marry Capt. F. A. Anderson of that vessel. Soon it was discovered, however, that Capt. Anderson already possessed a wife of 39 years standing...
...Miss Colbert's début with the Theatre Guild, a happy event for both. She is a small brunette of perfect symmetry and French antecedents. New York first discovered her in A Kiss in a Taxi in 1925. Since then she has played in The Barker (in which she met Actor Norman Foster, whom she married), The Pearl of Great Price, The Mulberry Bush, The Ghost Train, Fast Life, and Tin Pan Alley. She has gifts which the Guild undoubtedly will magnify...