Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Committeeman Liggett failed to elect his Republican candidate Benjamin Loring Young to the Senate last November. Quick to retort was Frank J. Donahue, chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee: "Since the direct election of U. S. senators the Senate has become the liberal and progressive branch of the national government. . . . Does Mr. Liggett prefer the Platts, Quays, Penroses and Aldriches of his party to the Borahs, Johnsons, Norrises and Kenyons?" Mr. Donahue succeeded in electing his Democratic candidate, David Ignatius Walsh, to the Senate last November...
...wife. Snook beat her four times over the head with an automobile hammer, cut her throat with a penknife, left her dead at a suburban rifle range where they had often trysted. Arrested, put on trial, Snook, cold, unmoved, said she had threatened to kill him, his wife, his young daughter, claimed he was emotionally insane, remembered nothing of his grisly deed. So vile was the testimony that no paper would publish it verbatim. Low-minded persons scavanged the official transcript, printed pamphlets omitting no horrid word, sold them on Columbus street corners. Last week a jury in 28 minutes...
Flowers, newsmen and a hard job followed on the heels of a White House messenger who, just eight years ago, handed a certificate to a fresh-faced young California woman at the Department of Justice in Washington. The certificate showed that President Harding had appointed Mabel Walker Willebrandt to be Assistant U. S. Attorney-General in charge of prison conditions, tax cases, Prohibition prosecution. Prohibition was barely a year and a half old. With three assistants Mrs. Willebrandt's division was the Department's smallest. That year saw 10,000 Prohibition arrests. In the field were...
Another Croker suit, pending judgment in Miami, is between Mrs. Croker and her stepson, Richard Croker Jr. He accused her of alienating his father's affections from the young Crokers. asked that she be restrained from helping manage the estate...
...wife could have asked for nothing more explicit than this gathering of U. S. women from New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles. Dallas, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Cleveland. It was equally edifying for the U. S. ladies to meet the wife of a Foreign Minister, no hausfrau, but a young, elegant, cosmopolite, English speaking Jewess, a woman equipped with the conversation of the polite world, equal to parlor or nightclub...