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Booker Taliaferro Washington Jr., son of the late great blackamoor educator, was sued by his wife, Mrs. Nettie Hancock Washington, in a cross-complaint against his divorce action, in Los Angeles. She objected to his boasting of his father, taking credit for many of the virtues of the deceased. Each accused the other of infidelity...
...past there has been a great deal of complaint about the Prom, most of which seems to arise from the competition furnished by the dances given by certain organizations around the college. I see no reason why this difficulty could not be overcome and, by charging a price sufficient to pay expenses, and with proper management, why the present Junior Class could not have a successful Prom, always providing of course that proper class cooperation would be forth coming. For after all the Junior Prom is an important class function, it should stand out as an occasion to be remembered...
...Angeles, Judge Walter Guerin awarded a divorce and alimony to one Mrs. Grace Miller. Mrs. Miller's complaint : her husband would fight with her, always "quit." Husband Miller's defense: "A man can't get anywhere fighting with a woman...
Chicago's fiscal fix last week began to involve the state of Illinois, which derives 60% of its income from the city. Long-legged Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson went to Chicago with fire in his eye. His complaint: Cook County owes the state $30,000,000 in back taxes. Illinois defaulted on a $300,000 waterway bond issue due Jan. 1, averted serious trouble only by persuading bondholders not to present their certificates for redemption. The state may _ be' unable to meet soldiers' bonus bond's due Aug. i. or to pay $4,856,602 due the Cook County School...
Since these facts were not concealed, Assistant Attorney General Washburn replied there was no fraud in selling the bonds. Significant seemed the fact that no holder of the bonds joined in the complaint, for while the redeemable feature may be unusual it still leaves a speculative interest to the issue...