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...least a temporary termination of a notorious divorce suit. In one hour and five minutes a jury disposed of several thousand dollars' worth of argument and many hours of legal talent. One Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes was acquitted of 16 charges lodged by one W. E. D. Stokes, her husband...
Such a case is as good as a medieval tournament to set champions a-jousting. On the one side was the mighty Samuel Untermyer, champion of Mrs. Stokes. On the other side rose Max D. Steuer, challenger for the irate husband. As lawyers both men rank with the Launcelots, Bediveres and Geraints, if not the Galahads. And for the sake of the rich rewards at stake, they jousted at one another as much as at the other's client...
...Gifford Pinchot: "Sustaining my husband's position on prohibition, I addressed the members of the League for Political Education, at Town Hall, Manhattan. 'Regardless of what the women of Philadelphia or New York City may think,' said I, 'the women of the Main Streets of the villages throughout the United States are back of the enforcement of the law.' I said that I was opposed to the proposed 'equal rights' Amendment to the Federal Constitution (see page 4). 'Such a change,' said I, 'would nullify laws protecting women in many states...
Charles M. Schwab: "In Budapest, the husband of Mrs. Schwab's niece, one Titus de Bobula, an American, was arrested on a charge of conspiring to overthrow the Hungarian Government...
...Philadelphia, Mrs. Catherine Rosier won a suit from two insurance companies for $35,568 on accident policies carried by her husband, Oscar Rosier, whom she shot and killed in his office in January, 1922. She also shot and killed Mr. Rosier's stenographer...