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Last week the Colorado Supreme Court handed down a decision declaring that Benjamin Barr Lindsey was, on Nov. 4, 1924, illegally re-elected to the judgeship of the Denver Juvenile Court. An ouster impended...
...Denver Juvenile Court, if not the first in the world, was the first to have almost arbitrary powers-over parents as well as children-for aid or correction. Benjamin B. Lindsey was its "father" and has been its only judge. The important cases he has heard in a dim secluded office. They make good stories. The "trouble" is nearly always sex. Last year, 1,000 girls came to him; 800 "had not let mother in on the secret." In one case, the Judge will personally arrange for the baby to be smuggled away at birth to a childless couple...
...Widener Library in the "Early College History" collection. Each of the valuable time worn little volumes is either wholly or partly the work of George Downing of the class of 1642, the first graduating class Harvard College turned out Downing himself was the second oldest graduate of his class, Benjamin Wood bridge being the senior member of the class...
Died. Marcus Samuel, Viscount Bearsted, 73, onetime (1902-03) Lord Mayor of London, seashell? and oil trader, who inaugurated bulk transportation of petroleum through the Suez Canal; in London. He survived his wife, Fanny Elizabeth Benjamin, by a few hours...
Twenty-eight years ago the city of Denver appointed a "public guardian and administrator," to care legally for its waifs, strays; and orphans. The appointee was a young man from Tennessee, Benjamin Barr Lindsey, who two years later became judge of Denver's juvenile court, which office he occupied ever since. Denver was not a soft town. And there was that in it, a scurrilous newspaper (the Post), which put a terrible premium upon the social transgressions which sensational news pages did much to promote. Judge Lindsey has been a very busy man for 26 years, dealing with recalcitrant...