Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...title from J. Jamsetji of Bombay in 1911 lost it to Jock Soutar of Philadelphia 1913, won it back in 1929, held it until his death in 1935. Setzler, son of a Buffalo corset salesman, was apprenticed to his father's friend, George Standing, longtime New York Racquet Club professional, in 1920. Last year, at 31, he won the U. S.open championship against socialite experts like Clarence Pell, Stanley G. Mortimer, Huntington Sheldon. Milford won the British open and amateur championships last year. Setzler's victory last week was not conclusive. He and Milford play again in London...
...morphine patients into comas. When they recovered from the "hypoglycemic shocks," their personalities were remarkably changed. Since the problem of curing a schizophrenic is the problem of shaking up his ingrown personality, Dr. Sakel tried shocking doses of insulin on Viennese schizophrenics. Last week at the New York Academy of Medicine he frankly declared that he does not know how and why his cure works, that it is indubitably effective. He has cured hundreds of cases of schizophrenia at his Vienna clinic by means of insulin injections. Dozens have been cured in private and public mental hospitals in Switzerland...
...York-one of the 26-the Judicial Council last week renewed its recommendation that the State Legislature authorize jury service by women under the same qualifications as men. The council held the practice would improve the calibre of petit juries. Feminist drives for jury rights in New York State began 15 years ago, but each time the Legislature allowed bills broadening the statutes to die in committee. In 1931 Bar Association groups fought the proposal, said lawyers had "difficulty in talking to women jurors." New Jersey has permitted mixed juries since 1921, advertised the fact when four women...
When Manhattan lawyers were no longer permitted or willing to enter the case of John Peter Zenger in 1735, an eminent Philadelphian named Andrew Hamilton was called in to defend Printer Zenger on charges of seditious libel of New York's Governor. Indignation which importation of a Philadelphia lawyer created among Manhattan burghers quickly changed to admiration, however, when Lawyer Hamilton's brilliant defense secured Printer Zenger's acquittal, established freedom of the U. S. Press. Also established was the folk-usage of "Philadelphia lawyer" as a synonym for shrewdness...
...which lobbyists will insert paid advertising to catch the legislative eye. Taxpayers, too, would have an interest in knowing, day by day, exactly what their elected representatives were doing in Washington's halls. Publisher with this notion was brisk young Henry Hayes ("Hank") Stansbury Jr., onetime New York American reporter and Paris correspondent for Universal Service. Subscription price: $15 for six months, free to Senators and Representatives. Competition in the field of specialized legislative reporting is David Lawrence's United States News, once the United States Daily...