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Even before he got back to Washington. President Hoover was publicly interrogated about his Harding speech by Senator Thomas James Walsh, relentless Teapot Dome inquisitor. With an eye cocked on politics, Senator Walsh said...
Tireless Torquemada was appointed by Ferdinand & Isabella to enforce the decree as Grand Inquisitor. He and his Holy Inquisition succeeded as few men have ever succeeded since the world began. Their work endured for more than 400 years. Not until last week was a Jewish couple married by a rabbi in Madrid "publicly...
Thus people realized, last week, the unique continuity of Grand Inquisitor Torquemada's work in Spain. Queen Isabella was no more and possibly less pious than His Most Catholic Majesty King Alfonso XIII, now ousted (TIME, April 27). In every crisis Alfonso XIII turned for intercession to the Holy Virgin. When a Cabinet was sworn in by His Majesty it was always before the Crucifix and two twinkling candles (TIME, March 2). He never permitted Protestants to build places of worship in Spain in the form of a church or to advertise or indicate by any sign the places where...
...Magistrate Jean Hortense Norris, 54, the city's first female judge, a strongminded lady who was accused of combining too much of the Wife of Bath's recklessness with Portia's astuteness. A report recommending her removal from office was filed by Referee Samuel Seabury, inquisitor of the lower courts of Manhattan and The Bronx for the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court. Referee Seabury's four specific charges against Magistrate Norris, brought out in her hearing before him four months ago (TiME, Feb. 28, March 9), were that: i) she had changed the records...
During the hearing, smart Lawyer Samuel Untermyer, stanch Tammany man who always wears an orchid in his buttonhole, objected to the admission of privately secured testimony, accused Referee Seabury of "prejudging the case." Tall, patrician Inquisitor Seabury flushed and said quietly: "I consider that remark grossly impertinent...