Word: stapleton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within five minutes Drs. Philip Work and James A. Stapleton diagnosed the strange case. John Bellinger was dissatisfied with his status as a dishwasher, they said, and he felt in his unconscious mind that he could not face the world, so he turned his back on it, attempted to retreat into a happy past. He had a simple case of hysteria, much milder than that of many sensitive persons who suddenly become blind or paralyzed when faced with an intolerable situation. Dr. Stapleton began to investigate Bellinger's "life activities from birth to the present," prepared to discuss Bellinger...
...Denver, Colo. The agency: a committee headed by Right Reverend Hugh L. McMenamin, rector of the Roman Catholic Cathedral. Reason: pictures and advertisements "suggestive of sex." Authority: Colorado law forbids distribution of obscene literature, provides for mandatory fines and jail sentences for violators. Fortnight ago. Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton of Denver appointed the McMenamin committee, instructed his police to enforce any bans it might make. If magazine distributors object to police action, they can sue the police in court...
...Zorach and against Ronnebeck, the Municipal Art Commission stuck to its guns for a while in the face of clamor by the trustees, the committee and Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton that Denver should have Ronnebeck or nothing. Leader of the Commission was fiftyish Anne Evans, weathered, spirited daughter of the first territorial governor of Colorado, patron of the summer theatre festival at Central City (TIME, July 26). Less exacting Commissioners began to waver when local ar- chitects declared that the Zorach memorial would not fit into Denver's $1,000,000 Civic Center. Then Mayor Stapleton dismissed...
...were once prevalent in Europe, included such cities as Naples, Leghorn, Hamburg, Marseille. Today, sprinkled over the globe from Copenhagen to Curaçao, are some 40 free ports, walled off on the seaward side of customs barriers, where shippers can unload, store and tranship goods without red tape. Stapleton is well suited for such a purpose for there New York's late Mayor John F. Hylan spent some $30,000,000 to build a row of enormous piers which have failed to earn their upkeep. New York's present Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who has pushed the free...
Though many authorities question the project's profitableness, New York City expects to make money from its investment in Stapleton Free Port. In the first year it is estimated that the port will handle 120,000 tons of goods. Wharfage and other revenues from the five piers and warehouse will run to $150,000, half again as much revenue as the Hylan piers have yielded in late years. That no eager freighters plowed past the vigilant electric eyes last week was due, according to Commissioner of Docks John McKenzie, to the fact that foreign shippers were not yet used...